Completed in 2003, this 270,000 square foot building sits along Tenth Street and provides East Carolina with state of the art facilities for Industrial Technology, Construction Management, and Chemistry. In addition to classrooms, this building also features computer centers, laboratory space, and a Distance Learning Center which allows for the transmittal of lectures and presentation across the globe.
- Built
- 2001
- Construction cost
- $70,590,013
- Gross sq. ft.
- 279,000
- Architects
- Rich Beale & Blake Talbot
- History
- The biggest new thing on campus this year – literally – is the Science and Technology Building. Funded by the General Assembly, campus resources and $59,545,000 of East Carolina’s share of the higher education bond issue approved in November 2000, the groundbreaking ceremony was held on Founders Day, 2001.
Sitting on a huge swath of land on the Tenth Street side of the central campus, the facility opened for business on the first day of classes of the fall semester, even though students most likely spent their first lab period unpacking boxes of equipment that had been loaded up at the end of the spring semester.The facility, the largest building on the central campus and the first major project at ECU completed with higher education construction bonds approved by North Carolina voters three years ago, provides a new home for the College of Technology and Computer Science and for the Chemistry Department.
The building was formally opened on October 11, the weekend of the ECU’s home football game against UNC-Chapel Hill. That should give students, faculty and staff time to explore its many nooks and crannies — including a glass-blowing shop and equipment with magnets strong enough to obliterate your credit card information — and figure out which switches operate which machines.
The building has laboratory and classroom space to house the Chemistry Department and the College of Technology & Computer Science. It is five stories tall and has a mechanical room penthouse. It also houses the new central chilled water plant that will serve the building and ultimately all buildings east of Founders Drive. The boiler plant will be expanded and a 75,000 pound per hour boiler will be added, increasing the number of boilers from three to four.
Information taken from East, Fall 2003, page 6.
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