FERNDALE – Joe Veryser, the campus architect for Lawrence Technological University, describes a new $16.9 million Taubman Complex on campus that will house biomedical engineering, combining biomedical and engineering disciplines, architecture, life sciences and more. The 39,000 square feet building also will become the new home for LTU’s Robotics program.
When it is completed, the A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Architecture, and Life Sciences Complex, home of the Marburger STEM Center, will provide Lawrence Tech students and faculty with much needed classroom, lab, and work space to support emerging, multi-disciplinary programs. It will enjoy a prominent place on campus, linking the Science Building and the current Engineering Building, which also will be undergoing a major renovation.
The project will house the robotics program on the first floor, science labs on the second floor, and biomedical labs and open areas for student work teams on the third floor. Other spaces will be allocated in the modular design as technologies and needs evolve. It will open in August.
The building is going for LEEDS Silver, a term for energy conservation. LTU already has one LEED building; the Taubman Center could make two. Heat pumps are used to heat and cool, instead of a conventional HVAC system.
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