Centre Medical Sciences Building
Owner: The Pennsylvania State University
1850 East Park Avenue
State College, PA 16801
· Building Size: 125,000 sq. ft.
· Number of Stories: 3
· Completion Date: 1994
· Total Cost: $13.1 million
· MEP Cost: $ 4.1 million
· Architect: Hayes Large Architects
· MEP Engineer: GJAI Consulting Engineers
· Structural Engineer: Clapp & Holmes
· General Contractor: H.B. Alexander & Sons, Inc.


The new Centre Medical Sciences Building in State College was developed as a design/build/finance project. The new facility, a joint venture between The Pennsylvania State University and Mount Nittany Medical Center, houses services new to the community as well as various services that had been offered at different locations.

Primary tenants include the Penn State Center for Sports Medicine, the Penn State University Physicians of the Hershey Medical Center, Centre Community Surgical Center, the Comprehensive Breast Care Center and IMA, a 20-doctor primary care and internal medicine practice. The building also houses X-ray suites, medical records office, cardiac rehabilitation center and laboratory space.

The building was originally constructed as a shell building with mechanical and electrical systems that could be adapted to various size and types of users. As the project construction progressed various tenants were added to the building requiring constant updating of documents and systems. The entire building was designed using CAD systems allowing simplified integration of changes to the contract documents to suite tenant fit out.

The various occupancies and tenant fit outs required GJAI to provide flexible and performance driven building systems suitable to meet all present and future tenant needs.



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