University of Delaware, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building
Newark, Del.

We submitted schematic design drawings and our Revit model last month for the four-story Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, for which we are providing structural engineering services for Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects. Comprising 194,000 gross SF, the building height varies from 64 to 80 feet, has a lateral system of ordinary reinforced concrete shear walls and a mixed gravity system consisting of two-way slabs with edge beams, flat plate and one-way slabs and joists. The foundation system is anticipated to be micro-piles, with the basement slab elevation at approximately two feet below the water table. The project includes a steel pedestrian bridge that connects the research and classroom/laboratory spaces. The project requires stringent vibration criteria varying from 33 to 2000 micro inches per second for imaging suites, clean rooms and synthesis and research lab spaces. Construction documents and a building information model in Revit are due in September 2010. Occupancy is anticipated for summer 2013.