George Mason University’s new Life Sciences and Engineering Building at the Science and Technology Campus (SciTech Campus) in Manassas, Virginia, helps the college’s rising want for extremely specialised tutorial labs, school rooms, and help areas.
To meet the wants of the college and the commonwealth, particularly offering college entry for students in Prince William, Fauquier, western Fairfax County, the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park, and past, the General Assembly and the Prince William delegation led by Delegate Luke Torian, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, was instrumental in strategic help and state funding for the new constructing.
With college school rooms and greater than 30 totally different laboratory areas for educating, design, and fabrication, the constructing gives state-of-the-art amenities for coaching in disciplines like athletic coaching and kinesiology, microbiology, chemistry, engineering, forensic science, robotics and autonomous autos, and extra. The constructing opened for lessons for the spring 2025 semester.
“Designed for rigorous hands-on learning, the Life Sciences and Engineering Building marks a major state investment in our outstanding George Mason faculty to educate and inspire our students—Virginia’s next generation of leaders, researchers, innovators, and problem solvers,” George Mason President Gregory Washington mentioned. “This facility, and the advancements it will produce, further establishes the Science and Technology Campus, and this Innovation District, as an anchor of the economic corridor that runs from Mason Square in Arlington to the Fairfax Campus to here in Manassas, further entrenching George Mason as a major driver of the prosperity of our region and state.”
The constructing will foster interdisciplinary connections throughout many tutorial items, together with the College of Education and Human Development, College of Engineering and Computing, and the College of Science.
Encompassing 132,000 sq. ft of house, the constructing is designed to advertise collaboration and engagement amongst students and college. The ground-level engineering labs and pupil design competitors bays open instantly onto the campus’ exterior pathways, permitting visibility into the work taking place inside.
The challenge was initially deliberate as an enlargement to Katherine G. Johnson Hall, an educational constructing at the SciTech Campus. When the college recognized the want for extra labs, school rooms, and workspaces, the scope of the challenge modified to a four-story, free-standing constructing.
The SciTech Campus, which was established in 1997, will anchor a new Innovation District, which incorporates the improvement of two residential and business city facilities instantly related to campus.
“The planned town centers will create a stronger link between the campus and the surrounding community,” mentioned Colby Grant, director of administration and operations for the SciTech Campus. “Combined with the new Life Sciences and Engineering Building, these developments further establish the campus as a dynamic hub for science, technology, the arts, entertainment, and recreation.”