Natural and Environmental Sciences Building
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
Date: 1994
Cost: $7,745,000
Area: 78,000 GSF
This project consisted of a three-story university facility housing multiple
departments. The design included landscape architecture studios with
presentation conference rooms, a television recording lecture hall with
acoustical treatments, research and teaching labs, a wood sciences laboratory
with dust collection system and wood curing kiln and a soils lab with
conventional and perchloric fume hood systems.
Some of the feature systems included laboratory gas distribution systems,
a deionized water system, DDC controls with campus automation system
interface, an acid resistant waste system with neutralization, a 225-ton
water cooled centrifugal chiller, central plant steam service for heating,
domestic water heating and process load, a wet pipe fire sprinkler system,
a chemical storage room with soil containment and movable casework in
teaching labs with exhaust and lab gas services routed in accessible
floor system.
