Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center

A master plan study of the Lampe Athletics Complex was conducted over Summer and Fall 2006 with the Athletic Department, Office of Campus Planning, Design, and Construction, and the New York City architectural office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP (SOM).  The study anticipates the changes and growth of the athletic facilities which may occur in the future, and provides a recommended plan for growth that could occur over the next one to two decades.  Included in major developments of the complex are creation of a Basketball Practice Facility, an Indoor Football Practice Facility, and an Indoor Track and Field Facility.

Later phases of the expansion of the complex may include a parking structure and restoration of the current surface parking lots to landscaped spaces for recreational and/or athletic field uses.

The initial phase of anticipated facilities growth is the creation of a Basketball Practice Facility.  The master plan identified the most suitable location for this facility in the parking lot north of the Roy D. Simmons Coaches Center.  The loss of approximately 48 vehicle parking spaces can be absorbed by the remaining parking lots on the site.  SOM was retained in February 2007 to provide pre-design services, working with Athletics to develop the space program requirements and design concept sketches for the facility so that a preliminary cost estimate could be developed.  The program currently calls for a Basketball Practice Facility of 37,170 net assignable square feet, which equates to 53,100 gross square feet with circulation and support space included. A future phase of this concept is to construct a centralized Sports Hall of Fame and Ticket Center lobby entrance connecting the Basketball Practice Facility to the Manley Arena, and a connecting link between Manley Arena and the Football Hall of Fame.  The project is conceived in such a way that the initial Basketball Practice Facility and future entrance and connector can be constructed independently to allow flexibility for fundraising and future decision making.

Ernie Davis Residence Hall

Architects:
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Construction Manager:
JD Taylor Construction Corporation
Engineers: ARUP
Project Manager: Doug Tankersley
Total Project Budget: $54 Million
   
Syracuse University has embarked on an exciting project to build a new residence hall which will be located at 619 Comstock Avenue adjacent to DellPlain Hall.  The new residence hall will house a total of 250 students.  The complex will provide a well-rounding living experience for the students and continue to demonstrate the University's desire to increase the quality of on-campus living.

The new residence hall will include the following:

•   80,000 gross square-foot (gsf) of residential space
•   10,000 gsf of recreation space
  
•   28,000 gsf of dining service space
  
•   2,000 gsf of academic space
  
•   4,000 gsf miscellaneous support space
  

The nine story residence hall will house a mix of single and double living units.  Each floor will include a lounge, pantry area, study space and laundry room.  The building will seek to accommodate upper-class students and will be available Fall 2009.

Lawrinson Hall

Lawrinson Hall is the University's tallest structure at 21 stories, and with a current capacity of 615 students is one of the largest residence halls on campus.  Completed in 1965, the building has been well maintained, but has not undergone a significant renovation or improvement since its opening.

Planning began in fall 2006 for a significant renovation to address replacement of worn out systems and finishes and to make functional improvements to enhance the quality of the residential experience in the building.  The project will replace flooring and refinish walls and ceilings throughout the building, and will upgrade plumbing, heating, and electrical systems, including new lighting, fire alarm, and computer network systems.  A new elevator control system will be installed for the four existing elevators.  The exterior of the building will be repaired where concrete panels have begun to deteriorate, and structural repairs to the building are necessary on upper floors where cantilevered floor slab areas have deflected and created gaps at the window openings which now cannot be sealed to the weather.  After repair of the window openings, new windows will be installed at those locations.  Programmatically, each floor will have expanded bathroom space for added capacity and privacy, and lounges will be added on each floor for study and social activities.

Bowne Hall
   
A major new interdisciplinary cluster for research in the field of bio-materials is forming at the University, based in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and expected to include Biology, Chemistry, and other disciplines.  The program envisions space for 7-10 researchers, with laboratories, offices, and administrative support space to support the program.

Upon completion of the Life Sciences Facility in Summer 2008, significant space currently utilized for Chemistry teaching labs will be released on the 2nd and 4th floors of Bowne Hall.  The current configurations and advanced age of the teaching laboratory spaces are not suited for bio-materials research, but the size of spaces, ceiling heights, and space for required mechanical equipment makes Bowne Hall very well suited for repurposing as the Bio-Materials Research Center.  The space requirements of the Bio-Materials Research Center will require all of the space released by Chemistry, likely reorganizing other occupants in the building to locate Bio-Materials on adjacent 3rd and 4th levels, and may require relocation of some occupants to other buildings in order to accommodate the full build-out of the Bio-Materials Center, anticipated at up to 20,000 total square feet.

What's Coming

Until 2006 Slocum Hall housed several departments and programs, including Architecture, departments of Visual and Performing Arts, and departments of Human Ecology.  A full building renovation has recently been completed that restored the center atrium and other aspects of the building's original architectural integrity, as well as bring the building into compliance with current standards for fire safety, accessibility, and  modern standards for bathrooms, heating and ventilating, lighting, power, and computer network.  The building now includes naturally lit studios, classrooms, a state of the art auditorium, computer cluster, academic resource center, a student shop, faculty and administrative offices, and a café.

Slocum Hall

Syracuse University broke ground in April 2006 for the construction of the Life Sciences Complex. The 230,000-square-foot building is the University's largest, most ambitious construction project. It will bring the biology, chemistry, and biochemistry departments under one roof for the first time in the University's history.

The Life Sciences Complex will promote interdisciplinary research and education. The building will be used as a vital instructional facility, a major research center, a training ground for future scientists, and a place where discoveries are made, particularly in the areas of cell signaling and environmental systems.

Set to open in the fall of 2008, the Life Sciences Complex will be located on the Main Campus, adjacent to the existing Center for Science and Technology (CST). The five-story building will be organized into two wings, forming an "L"-shaped configuration. The research wing will house biology research laboratories, lab support offices, conference rooms, and faculty offices. The teaching wing will be home to biology and chemistry teaching labs, lecture halls, research and technology greenhouses. An atrium, enlivened by a cafe, will connect the Life Sciences Complex to CST, where chemistry research laboratories are presently located.

Life Sciences Complex

Center of Excellence (CoE)

The CoE Headquarters building will be constructed on a three-acre campus at the corner of East Washington and Almond streets in downtown Syracuse. The building will include spaces for collaboration between Syracuse CoE academic, public, and private/corporate partners in research & development, education, and public outreach.

The building will include offices, classrooms, laboratories and public spaces which promote collaboration. Among the unique planned features of the building and the campus are:

• The Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality (TIEQ) Laboratory, a unique facility in which researchers will study how multiple factors-including temperature, humidity, air quality, lighting and sound-combine to affect human health and performance in built environments, including offices, schools and homes;
• Laboratories for research & development of new fuels and by-products from rapidly renewable biological sources;
  
• An "Urban Ecosystem Observatory", a 250-foot tall tower from which measurements of outdoor air quality will be taken at multiple elevations, for studies including the impact of buildings on urban ecosystems;
  
• A"green" roof, which will reduce stormwater runoff, reduce urban heat island effect, improve insulation of the labs below, and produce oxygen.
  

The CoE Headquarters project is primarily funded through the Empire State Development Corporation by the State of New York.  The Carrier TIEQ laboratory is funded by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), and a generous gift from Carrier.

"The proposed design of the Syracuse Center of Excellence headquarters facility responds to the center's programmatic needs and the microclimate of the site in downtown Syracuse," says Toshiko Mori, design architect for the project. "Counter to a traditionally introverted research lab building, the Syracuse CoE headquarters facility is open to the surrounding city. The building's form and landscape are intended to serve as a green urban intervention that will become one of the anchors of the Connective Corridor between downtown Syracuse and Syracuse University."

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