This project involved the design of four story Academic Building housing Classrooms, Offices and Specialty Rooms to support the Department of Education, Department of Deaf Education, and the Psychology Department. The facility includes an American Sign Language Laboratory, the only one of its kind located on the East Coast.

The Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning systems included a four pipe central plant, constant volume and variable air volume air distribution systems. The four pipe central plant consisted of a 220 ton water cooled screw chiller coupled with a remote cooling tower within a custom designed enclosure and a hot water heating system using campus steam for the heating medium. Two central station variable air volume air handling units were located in the third floor mechanical rooms. These units served the classrooms and offices with one unit serving the south side of the building and the other serving the north side. A dedicated constant volume system was provided for the Colony Lab which studied pigeons. Standard institutional plumbing systems such as domestic water, storm water, sanitary, vent and natural gas were provided. The entire building was provided with a wet sprinkler system served from a combined incoming water service.

Primary service comes from the campus 5kV underground distribution system, with a unit substation inside the building main electrical room. Emergency Generator – diesel – inside the building was located in a separate generator room. Computer Power was provided with 200% rated neutral busses, TVSS protection. Fire alarm systems and security system tied into the campus wide system. Telecommunications system included voice/data/video inside the building, with extension of the existing campus ductbank system for intra-building wiring by owner. Voice/Data – Cat5, Video- bidirectional for future transmission from building over the campus. Lighting included indirect linear fluorescent fixtures in classrooms, recessed indirects in corridors, parabolic louvered fixtures in offices, decorative lighting on building exterior, campus standard walkway lighting for integration into surrounding areas. The building is an academic building consisting of classrooms with rough-in’s for future “smart” classroom technology, seminar rooms, office spaces.