Dive Brief:
- Demand for engineers and construction managers is expected to rise 40% in the decade ending in 2020, and Louisiana State University has found more support faster than it hoped in a campaign to renovate the school's engineering campus.
- LSU raised $52.5 million from corporate and individual donors after seeking $50 million as half of its part of a public-private partnership for the $350 million, 350,000-square-foot project.
- Groundbreaking is scheduled this fall for a new chemical engineering building, and renovation and expansion of the College of Engineering's Patrick F. Taylor Hall is on the boards to begin in 2015.
Dive Insight:
The architects for the overhaul are Perkins + Will and Coleman Partners Architects LLC, which is based in Baton Rouge. The project should supply significant work for contractors in the Baton Rouge area.
