Morgan State University Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies rendering

[Ty Doggie]

If this is what to come, Morgan will be seriously moving UP and in to this field.

http://www.freelon.com/portfolio/266#

The Morgan State University Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies is currently being designed by The Freelon Group, in association with CSD Architects of Baltimore, Maryland.

The design of the new 124,800 gsf Facility will support the institutional and research programs of Morgan State University that address the physical aspects of the urban environment, including the Institute of Architecture and Planning, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Transportation Studies.

The project team will apply sustainable design standards that will target a minimum of LEED Gold Rating from the United States Green Building Council’s Green Building Rating System and meet sustainable design standards approved by the State of Maryland.

[rockin'.baltimorean]

nice! should do wonders for msu.

[urbanaturalist]

solar panels on an HBCU building...........I like the sound of that.

[PeterSmith]

I like this one. Morgan has a wide variety of architectural styles on its campus, which puts it in the minority among college campuses. I like the idea of the CBEIS too. Very cool.

[Ty Doggie]

Ground broke on last week on this.

[Tricia_Lvs_Baltimore]

Originally Posted by Ty Doggie

Ground broke on last week on this.

Where on campus is this building supposed to go? Morgan State is running out of spots to put buildings.

[MDguy]

Great! Morgan State is a very nice campus!

[Ty Doggie]

Originally Posted by Tricia_Lvs_Baltimore

Where on campus is this building supposed to go? Morgan State is running out of spots to put buildings.

It's across from the engineering building along with some space from the Herring run.

[Ty Doggie]

And it's coming along just nicely.

[Ty Doggie]

Originally Posted by urbanaturalist

solar panels on an HBCU building...........I like the sound of that.

Yeah how rare is that.

[Coldspring]

Originally Posted by Tricia_Lvs_Baltimore

Where on campus is this building supposed to go? Morgan State is running out of spots to put buildings.

Northwoods Shopping Center should be next. I wonder if they truly run out of land.. if they would consider building a second campus somewhere in Baltimore... possibly up in Park Heights near Sinai... Would be nice to have a nice anchor in Park Heights as part of the redevelopment of that area... The school's programs/students could be a wonderful resource for the neighborhood.. Maybe some type of joint program/degree could be created with Sinai? Both the Main and "West MSU" campus could be connected via enhanced MTA Bus service along Coldspring Lane....

[rockin'.baltimorean]

Originally Posted by Ty Doggie

If this is what to come, Morgan will be seriously moving UP and in to this field.

http://www.freelon.com/portfolio/266#

The Morgan State University Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies is currently being designed by The Freelon Group, in association with CSD Architects of Baltimore, Maryland.

The design of the new 124,800 gsf Facility will support the institutional and research programs of Morgan State University that address the physical aspects of the urban environment, including the Institute of Architecture and Planning, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Transportation Studies.

The project team will apply sustainable design standards that will target a minimum of LEED Gold Rating from the United States Green Building Council’s Green Building Rating System and meet sustainable design standards approved by the State of Maryland.

looks nice! according to the renderings, looks like morgan is going to have a second library on campus.

[Ty Doggie]

Originally Posted by Coldspring

Northwoods Shopping Center should be next. I wonder if they truly run out of land.. if they would consider building a second campus somewhere in Baltimore... possibly up in Park Heights near Sinai... Would be nice to have a nice anchor in Park Heights as part of the redevelopment of that area... The school's programs/students could be a wonderful resource for the neighborhood.. Maybe some type of joint program/degree could be created with Sinai? Both the Main and "West MSU" campus could be connected via enhanced MTA Bus service along Coldspring Lane....

You're right. The old Hechinger's/Burlington/Head Start building was demolished is the site for the new School of Business and Management (renderings of this building was in the August edition of Urbanite). The parking lot area of that site is going to be where the replacement building for the Jenkins building be, as the old building is old, poorly constructed as has really outlived its usefulness as a building on campus.

I'll be glad when they raze Montebello, refurbish or raze McKeldin and totally renovate Soper Library.

[Ty Doggie]

And it's FINISHED and OPENED

[Cprimm]

Originally Posted by Ty Doggie

If this is what to come, Morgan will be seriously moving UP and in to this field.

http://www.freelon.com/portfolio/266#

The Morgan State University Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies is currently being designed by The Freelon Group, in association with CSD Architects of Baltimore, Maryland.

The design of the new 124,800 gsf Facility will support the institutional and research programs of Morgan State University that address the physical aspects of the urban environment, including the Institute of Architecture and Planning, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Transportation Studies.

The project team will apply sustainable design standards that will target a minimum of LEED Gold Rating from the United States Green Building Council’s Green Building Rating System and meet sustainable design standards approved by the State of Maryland.

I went to Morgan from 2005-2010 and I've seen the Library , Student Center , and Communications Buildings go up and they dont take care of them with their crappy custodial staff. Just another post-post modern building on campus. It should be done by now.

[urbanaturalist]

http://www.morganstatenewsroom.com/2...beis-building/

Opening Day Approaches for Morgan's CBEIS Building
Post by MSU on Jul 03, 2012 | Comments Off

By: Violet Achimuagole
Morgan State University Newsroom

“Growing the future, leading the world.” Evidence is easy to come by that Morgan takes this tagline seriously. There is the University’s top ranking in production of Fulbright Scholars, for example, and the fact that Morgan is first in graduating African-American engineers. And then there’s the current “Exhibit A”: Morgan’s recently completed Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS).

CBEIS, a 125,000-square-foot, $67-million, state-of-the-art facility, will house research and instructional programs in Architecture and Planning; Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies; and Civil Engineering, in a highly cooperative and collaborative setting.

Having this powerful mix of disciplines under one roof sets Morgan apart from most other institutions of higher education. (The only other regional university with a similar housing arrangement is Howard University, which, unlike Morgan, has its engineering and architecture programs in the same college.) But that’s hardly the only thing that makes CBEIS special. The building is equipped with innovative technologies such as 3D projectors, an earthquake simulator, solar panels and an architecture studio with three high-quality printers. The earthquake simulator is one of only two on the east coast and “can shake up to nine points on the Richter scale,” reports Mary Anne Akers, Ph.D., dean of Morgan’s School of Architecture and Planning.

CBEIS features 34 classrooms/studios/computer labs; 100 offices; 10 group study rooms, conference rooms and jury rooms; four laboratories; a model shop; atrium spaces with skylights; lounges; a green roof; a loading/service access and 300 parking spaces. The building’s furniture was custom-designed by Maryland Correctional Enterprises and Morgan’s Department of Architecture.

The deans and department chairs of the resident programs expect CBEIS to aid their research and instruction.

“The engineering group is going from a university-level teaching facility to a research facility,” says Julie Wilson, design and construction project manager for CBEIS. “We have very unique equipment in this building.”

CBEIS was the vision of Dr. Earl Richardson, former president of MSU, and was launched with the assistance of Cynthia Wilder, the University’s facility planner. Hord Coplan Macht designed the facility, in association with The Freelon Group.

The new Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies is located on the northern-most edge of Morgan’s campus. The building is designed to interact with and provide a link between two very different environments: the urban context along Perring Parkway and the natural landscape of the Herring Run Watershed.

The grand opening for CBEIS will take place this summer on Sept. 20.

In your own backyard.......................... http://www.facebook.com/morgan.sap?v=wall

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4371365.story

Morgan St. opens $69.9 million academic center
New building to house science, architecture and engineering program

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, The Baltimore Sun

6:33 p.m. EDT, September 20, 2012


Morgan State University has developed a hub for science, technology, engineering and math with its new academic building, the Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies.

The $69.9 million center, which opened Thursday, features learning technologies such as an earthquake simulation chamber, a 3-D projector and an architecture studio. The earthquake studio is one of two on the East Coast and can simulate seismic activity up to a magnitude of 9.0.

The center will also house the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering's civil engineering and transportation studies programs, and its National Transportation Center.

Eugene DeLoatch, dean of the College of Engineering, said the integration of the disciplines will assist students in learning.

"Our students have similar threads running through their disciplines," he said. "And now the students are in very close proximity, just as if they worked for a company."

The building has a green roof and other energy-efficient features, as well as rain gardens that can filter rainwater to the Herring Run tributary of the Back River.

Construction of the 131,000-square-foot facility began in 2010.

[rockin'.baltimorean]

looks good!

[Ty Doggie]

Yep

[Ty Doggie]

And it's damn good when lit.