Plans have not been finalized, according to Barbara White, director of project management and planning, but the idea of adding on to the existing Fondren Library have been scrapped in favor of a new edifice. At this point, it's the most costly project on the boards, carrying an estimated $100-million price tag and a tentative design of 283,600 sf. Construction will begin within two years and be done in phases to minimize interference with library operations. Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Inc. has snagged the architects' pact while Linbeck Construction Corp. will be serving as general contractor. The project tentatively carries a December 2004 delivery time.
Funds for the construction extravaganza have come from the "Rice--The Next Century" fund-raising campaign. Eighty percent of the money being raised is dedicated to building projects. The university Web site, used as a source for this article, contains a project-by-project listing and is being regularly updated with information on construction stages.
The campus, says White, has been happily disrupted as work progresses on a $7.4-million baseball stadium. Reckling Field will be completed in time for the first shouts of "play ball" in the spring.
Officials are looking to summer 2002 to bring the opening of the $69-million Jones Graduate School of Management, a 358,010-sf replacement for the university's old business school. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects with Gilbane Construction as contractor, the building will triple the business school's space and feature a 425-seat auditorium. This project brings a first for the campus: two underground floors of parking with 487 spaces.
The new 196,041-sf Martel College with central kitchen, plus additions to Jones and Brown Colleges, will be ready for use in December. It is the first new residential structure to be built on campus in almost three decades and will contain four stories of suites. Designed by Michael Graves & Associates with Pierce Goodwin, Alexander and Linville as executive architect, the construction will be carried out by Miner-Dederick Constructors.
The Jones addition will connect north and south halls on four levels, with a ground-floor commons and dorms for 44 students on the upper stories. The Brown addition will offer housing for 58 residents plus classrooms and a lounge.
The old Wiess College will be demolished and replaced by a 163,500-sf facility scheduled for completion in March 2002, while Hanszen College will get a new kitchen and commons area by this fall. The price tag for all that will be $101.1 million. The new Wiess College, being built south of the existing building, will house 231 students in four stories of suites. It will have a glass-enclosed commons and a new kitchen to serve Wiess and Hanszen commons, with the roof serving as an open terrace. It has been designed by Machado & Silvetti Associates with Kirksey and Partners as executive architect and Brown & Root Services as the general contractor.
The 37,977-sf Rayzor Hall for the Humanities will be getting a $6.9-million facelift and be ready to occupy in fall 2001. A $7.3-million renovation of Seward Hall for the Humanities and Fine Arts will start sometime in 2001, though no finish date has been set. The architect and contractor have not been announced.
Renovation of the 103,800-sf Howard Keck Hall, a chemistry building and lecture hall, will be completed this summer at a cost of $29.5 million. A new $4.8-million addition, totaling 11,835 gross sf, will add more chemistry lab space and deliver this month. Linbeck Construction has been the general contractor and FKP, the executive architects. The 75-year-old Keck Hall's interior had been gutted and all mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems replaced. It will provide offices and laboratory space for visiting faculty and industrial colleagues collaborating with Rice faculty in the biochemistry and bioengineering departments.
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