{"id":203437,"date":"2008-07-18T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2008-07-18T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T19:03:14","slug":"new-engineering-building-to-be-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2008\/07\/new-engineering-building-to-be-built\/","title":{"rendered":"New Engineering Building to be Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/SoE\/images\/ecomm07172008\/soe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Dean of Engineering Mun Y. Choi announced that a new Engineering building will be constructed on the Storrs campus by 2013. Steady growth in undergraduate enrollments, the need for expanded high-tech research space, and success in securing a number of high profile national research centers have heightened pressures on the School to expand.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary designs for the building, to contain a minimum of 40,000 sq. ft. of usable space, will begin in 2009. The estimated $42 million building will be constructed with funds provided by the State&#8217;s $2.3 billion investment in Connecticut&#8217;s flagship university, begun in 1995 under the name &#8220;UConn 2000&#8221; and expanded in a second phase as &#8220;21st Century UConn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new building will house state-of-the-art research and teaching laboratories for biomedical engineering, nanotechnology and sustainable engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Engineering is vital to the economic health and vitality of the State, and we are gratified that State leaders and the University recognize our need to continue to grow,&#8221; said Dean Choi. &#8220;This new facility will leverage our educational and research initiatives, and fortify our ability to attract new resources and opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean of Engineering Mun Y. Choi announced that a new Engineering building will be constructed on the Storrs campus by 2013. Steady growth in undergraduate enrollments, the need for expanded high-tech research space, and success in securing a number of high profile national research centers have heightened pressures on the School to expand. Preliminary designs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-203437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:31:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203437"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}