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The Auburn University Science Laboratory Center was Auburn University's first CM project of the $400 million construction undertaking to modernize Auburn's campus.
This project, the Science Laboratory Center, is a $38 million complex comprised of three buildings and three phases of construction located in the heart of the campus just south of the lower quad. The first phase of construction involved partially demolishing the three-floor, 81,000-sq.-ft. Saunders Hall chemistry building and removal of the university's medical cottage.
During phase two, actual construction of the Science Lab Center complex - a five story, 105,000-sq.-ft. laboratory building; a two-story, 31,000-sq.-ft. classroom and administration building; and a 300-seat, 9,600-sq.-ft. auditorium - began in June 2003.
The two-story classroom and 300-seat auditorium buildings were completed in the fall of 2004, in time for the College of Science and Mathematics faculty and students to occupy and fully utilize beginning in the spring semester.
The larger and more complicated laboratory building completed two months ahead of schedule in February 2005.
After the College of Science and Mathematics users relocated their chemistry labs to the new laboratory building in May 2005, the remainder of Saunders Hall was torn down.
Key Facts
| Owner: Auburn University, Auburn, Ala. |
| Contractor: The Robins & Morton Group, Birmingham, Ala. |
| Cost: $38 million |
| Architect: Gresham Smith & Partners, Birmingham, Ala.; Earl Walls Associates, San Diego, Calif |
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