BAC - Engineering Interdisciplinary Facility Building (Franklin Antonio Hall)

The Building Advisory Committee (BAC) advises the administration on the planning and design of the proposed Engineering Interdisciplinary Facility. In this role, the BAC will review and make recommendations about the program and design within the project's time and budgetary constraints.


This project will entail construction of approximately 114,000 assignable square feet of new space that will include approximately 11 research collaboration laboratories, faculty offices, hotel offices, student workstations, education space such as general assignment classrooms and executive education facilities, spaces for informal and formal meetings, public spaces, a cafe and outdoor park-like open spaces. The building will serve as a living laboratory for advanced research in critical areas related to the digital future and will be designed to foster interactions among and across the research teams, co-laboratories and strategic industry partners. In addition, it will provide space needed for faculty growth in the Jacobs School of Engineering and improve the faculty-student ratio in all departments. The building will be located in Warren College Neighborhood on the site of an existing parking lot (P502) just north of Voigt Drive and across from Atkinson Hall.


The initial estimated project budget is approximately $180 million. The campus will implement this project through either a Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) or Design-Build (DB) delivery method, to be determined at a later date. The anticipated project completion is Fall 2021.

  • Farhat Beg, Professor, Mechanical/ Aerospace Engineering
  • Jeremy Blackstone, Graduate Student Representative, JSOE Graduate Student Council
  • Tara Cameron, Director, Space Planning, Academic Affairs
  • Shirley Meng, Associate Professor, Nanoengineering
  • Al Pisano, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, BAC Chair
  • Todd Pitman, Assistant Director, Physical and Community Planning
  • J.R. Romero, Building and Commissioning/Sustainability, Facilities Management
  • Mark Rowland, Program Manager, Facilities Design and Construction
  • Gabriel Silva, Professor, Bioengineering
  • Tana Troke Campana, Assistant Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
  • George Tynan, Associate Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
  • Joel Watson, Professor, Economics, Committee on Campus/Community Environment Representative
  • Cristiana Winter, Assistant Director, Capital Planning