Skanska USA has broken ground on Fitts-Woolard Hall on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The 224,000-square-foot building is the fourth in a series of engineering buildings that will complete the College of Engineering’s move to NC State’s Centennial Campus.
The building will support broad initiatives in areas such as advanced materials and manufacturing, robotics and sensor technology, service sector engineering, critical infrastructure and security, transportation and logistics and energy and environmental systems. Fitts-Woolard Hall will house:
- Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
- College of Engineering Dean’s administrative offices
The four-story building is designed with two entrance lobbies. These are connected by a wide corridor with views into the engineering labs and open stairs. This “Engineering on Display” will encourage campus pedestrians to pass through the building and allow the school to showcase its ongoing work.
The first floor level is built into the slope of the site with a concrete structure and below-grade, cast-in-place retaining walls. The second floor level is cast-in-place elevated concrete-slab construction. Levels three, four and the roof will be steel-frame construction. The skin of the building will consist of curtainwall and brick veneer. The building will house heavy labs, light labs, classrooms, grad spaces and administration offices.
Fitts-Woolard Hall gained its name as the result of a $25-million joint gift from alumni Edward P. Fitts Jr. and Edgar S. Woolard Jr., the largest given for a campus building naming in NC State’s history.
Skanska previously constructed the Engineering Building III, the third building developed for the College of Engineering on the Centennial Campus. The general contractor also built the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, located on the south side of the Centennial Campus and the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, a unique, cross-disciplinary instructional center that provides educational and training opportunities for biomanufacturing professionals.
Rendering source: https://www.engr.ncsu.edu.
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