After almost a year of construction, the Penn State College of Engineering West 2 project celebrated the completed installation of all the main building structural steels in early October. The path to reach this milestone was especially challenging due to major material and labor shortages during the pandemic, but the team persevered.
To commemorate this important milestone, the final structural piece was painted white, signed by members of the Penn State community as well as construction and project team members, then hoisted into place with a camera attached to record the special moment.
The West 2 Building will provide flexible classrooms, multi-use design studios, “cornerstone to capstone” makerspaces, high bay research labs, faculty offices and research cores to benefit multiple engineering disciplines. This will create a singular programmatic magnet for research, making, testing and prototyping from a broad range of disciplines to become the innovation and making hub of the College of Engineering.
The West 2 Building is tracking LEED Gold, with an estimated completion date in 2022.
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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