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Engineering & Information Technologies Building, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Bradford, PA
Practical applications.
Creating a home for two new tech programs.
Specialized spaces for hands-on instruction
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford needed to create new specialized instructional spaces and support facilities to develop their two new engineering technology programs and enhance and combine the facilities of existing programs. Be...
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The design strategy aligns all functions to open to a two-story collaborative center to enhance visibility, accessibility, interactions, and team building.
The siting of the building creates a centralized common that provides a more social, collaborative, team-based learning model for the campus.
A cantilevered metal clad faculty office “bar” floating above a glass enclosed collaborative first floor provides a dynamic north edge for the newly formed quad.
Labs and classrooms all use the same module footprint to enhance flexibility.
A thick building footprint and strategic integration of glass reduces energy usage while preserving access to daylight and views.
Exposed ceilings in the shared, centralized maker hub put building systems on display.
Engineering technology students will have hands-on labs and study applied mathematics. They will create on their own in a maker space full of milling machines, lathes, welding equipment, metal cutting technology and 3-D printers and scanners.
This is a really exciting project for Pitt-Bradford. It is the first academic building that the campus has built in two decades, and it’s going to provide a state-of-the-art home for our computer information systems and technology program as well as two new engineering technology programs.”
Rick Esch
Interim President
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Without this new building to house our special equipment and labs, we wouldn’t be able to offer our students these new engineering technology programs in which graduates are in demand, and without these new majors, our region’s need for a locally trained and skilled workforce would continue to go unmet in key areas.”
Dr. Matt Kropf
Associate Professor of Petroleum Technology
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Creating a home for two new tech programs.
Engineering & Information Technologies Building, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Bradford, PA
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Practical applications.