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with the announcement of
plans for a second science and engineering quad to the
west of the first one, the University is one step closer
to fulfilling architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s
1888 master plan of seven quads along an east-west axis.
Dubbed SEQ 2, the project will be built between 2006
and 2014 at an estimated cost of $375 million to $420
million.
The quad’s four buildings are designed to encourage
collaboration among hundreds of faculty. The environment
and energy building will house the Stanford Institute
for the Environment, the Global Climate and Energy Project,
and much of the department of civil and environmental
engineering. The dean’s office, the department
of management, science and engineering, and the Institute
for Computational and Mathematical Engineering will
occupy the School of Engineering center, with space
left over for classrooms, a library and a café.
The bioengineering/chemical engineering facility will
bring together two related departments and place them
in proximity to the School of Medicine. And in the Ginzton
replacement building, researchers will continue work
at the intersection of physics and engineering, including
quantum electronics, superconductors and semiconductors.
They and others will take advantage of the sophisticated
labs in the linked basement underneath all four buildings
that will be free of outside light, noise and vibrations.
“The program that’s going to go in each
of the buildings is being thought of as a whole,”
says Jim Plummer, MS ’67, PhD ’71, dean
of the School of Engineering. “Opportunities for
sharing facilities between the buildings, for creating
labs that bring people together from the various buildings
and elsewhere on campus, are going to be a very important
element of the overall design.”
At least three major buildings will be razed to make
room for the new quad: the applied physics building,
Ginzton Laboratory and the Hansen Experimental Physics
Laboratory, including the modular building that houses
the Gravity Probe B project. Terman Engineering Center,
which suffers from dry rot, likely will be demolished
after the new School of Engineering’s center opens. |
