Fitchburg, MA – BOND, along with students, faculty and staff from Fitchburg State University (FSU) celebrated the official groundbreaking of the school’s $57.3 million new science facility. The Building Division of BOND, based in Everett, will construct an addition as well as renovate the existing Condike Science Center. The project is the first new academic facility for FSU since 1963.
“We understand the significance of this project and we are honored to be given this opportunity. This ground breaking brings us one step closer to delivering a state-of-the-art facility in which FSU’s students and faculty will accomplish great things for many years to come,” said Bob Murray, President of BOND.
Funding for the science center and renovations to the existing building is part of the state’s $2 billion bond bill to improve facilities at the Massachusetts’s public institutions of higher education. The state-of-the-art 55,000sf structure will provide students and faculty with biology and chemistry teaching and research laboratories, classrooms, and support functions. In addition, the project will include renovations to the existing building which provides space for physics and geo-physical sciences, classrooms, and faculty offices on the 31-acre campus.
BOND, along with CBT Architects of Boston, is expected to complete the combined addition and renovation by January of 2014