Glassboro, New Jersey
Size
90,500 gsf new
107,000 gsf renovation
Services
Feasibility Study
Programming (new building and renovations to Rowan Hall engineering building)
Lab Planning
Architecture
Roles
Ellenzweig
Design Architect and Laboratory Planner
Clarke, Caton, Hintz
Architect of Record
Awards
New Good Neighbor Award: New Jersey Business and Industry Association
Engineering Hall significantly expands the teaching and research facilities of Rowan University’s Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering and establishes a new, distinctive identity for the College. A connecting bridge unites the building with existing Rowan Hall creating an integrated engineering complex.
Engineering Hall houses research and teaching facilities for Computer Engineering, Civil/Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Program components include laboratories and classrooms, lab support, shops, student spaces that feature team collaboration rooms, breakout areas, maker spaces, and a Learning Commons with spaces for interaction as well as food service. The connector bridge houses the Dean’s suite and Administration offices.
The Learning Commons at the juncture of the new and existing buildings creates a new “front door” to the College of Engineering.
The architects developed a design that links our history of an undergraduate engineering college in our current Rowan Hall to a new, research-intensive College of Engineering in our new building. The team understood our needs and helped us maximize the efficiency of our operations by designing an amazing new space. The new building has open, interactive teaching and research labs that give us the flexibility to adapt to changes in the future. The new designs incorporate the needs and wishes of our constituents – faculty, students and staff – with state of the art research, teaching, and student collaboration spaces.
– Anthony Lowman, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Engineering Rowan University
The collaboration rooms and break-out spaces are representative of the many areas that the building provides for student interaction, study, and project work.
Laboratories and classrooms are highly flexible, and provide a wide range of teaching and research formats and environments.
