University of Illinois at Chicago - Engineering Innovation Building

Designing a State-of-the-Art Engineering and Research Facility

Chicago, Illinois

Our firm provided programming, project management, concept development, architectural design, interior design, and technology design services for this award-winning building.

This project consolidated the chemical engineering, civil and materials engineering, and mechanical and industrial engineering programs into one state-of-the-art building.

The Engineering Innovation Building is home to more than 50 administrative, faculty, and graduate-level research offices.

In addition to the laboratories, this 57,500-square-foot building includes a student lounge, student offices, researcher offices, a seminar room, and a unit operations lab.

The building features a high-bay structural testing laboratory with a 30-foot high concrete reactive wall and a six-foot-thick concrete strong floor.

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Engineering Innovation Building for the College of Engineering houses three engineering departments, allowing for expanded curriculum and the only high-bay structural testing lab of its kind in the Chicago area. Our firm provided project management, programming, concept development, architectural, interiors, furniture, and technology design services to create this state-of-the-art building.

3

engineering departments

18

wet labs

4

computational labs

39

research offices

The 57,500-square-foot Engineering Innovation Building is designed with reinforced structure to mitigate vibration from lab to lab and from exterior interference, supporting highly advanced experimentation. The building includes research laboratories, computational laboratories, departmental offices, and the four-story high-bay space for structural materials testing. This laboratory sits on a six-foot-thick reinforced concrete slab and features a 30-foot-high reinforced concrete reactive wall.

Client

University of Illinois at Chicago

Certification

LEED^® Gold

Awards

Outstanding Design Citation Winner, Chicago Building Congress Merit Award finalist

American School & University Magazine

Distinguished Building Award

AIA Northeastern Illinois

Square Footage

57,500 SF

Services

Architecture
Planning, Consulting and Advisory

Markets

Education

Regions

Midwest