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Ball State STEM Campus Phase II Foundational Sciences Building
Muncie, IN

The facility accommodates program space for academic office suites, faculty offices, classrooms, teaching labs, research labs, conference rooms, computer labs, and collaborative spaces. The structural system is a conventionally reinforced cast-in-place concrete frame, with five elevated floor levels over a partial basement. Extensive side by side analysis of structural steel framing versus cast-in-place concrete framing was performed prior to selecting the cast-in-place scheme. A vibration analysis was performed to keep peak velocities of the floor framing below acceptable levels for the vibration sensitive equipment being proposed in the building.

Project Details: Size 206,000 GSF | Project Completion 2021