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Take a look inside LSU’s Patrick F. Taylor Hall following its $116M renovation, expansion

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February 28, 2018

Design Page, Patrick Taylor Hall — The entrance of the renovated Patrick F. Taylor Hall faces Nicholson Drive Extension on the south part of LSU's campus. The LSU College of Engineeringís Patrick F. Taylor Hall renovation and expansion provides engineering students with state-of-the-art labs and 41,202 square feet of student collaboration space.

The entrance faces Nicholson Drive Extension on the south side of the LSU campus. The complex was completed in several phases, and collectively encompasses more than 436,000 square feet of usable space, including about 41,200 square feet of student collaboration space, nearly 135,000 square feet of teaching and lab space, 1,576 classroom seats and 272 faculty and staff offices.

Patrick F. Taylor Hall

South Quad Drive

PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM MUELLER

Owner: LSU

Architect: Perkins+Will and Coleman Partners Architects

Contractor: The Lemoine Company

Cost: $116 million

Completed: December 2017

Use: Houses the majority of the LSU College of Engineering departments, as well as the college’s administration

Form follows function: “The new Patrick F. Taylor Hall represents the model for future academic and research space at LSU, from its transparent interior design that reflects the ‘Engineering on Display’ goal, flexible classroom arrangements for modern teaching pedagogies and ample space for students to gather together, to its exterior architecture that is characteristic of the LSU campus. This building, completed on schedule and within budget, is now the largest on LSU’s campus, largest educational building in Louisiana, and largest engineering building in the U.S.”

—Roger Husser, LSU assistant vice president for planning, design and construction

LSU faculty member Alison Burkley experiments with a 3-D computer-aided virtual environment at the new MMR BIM Laboratory. The virtual reality environment is made up of 44 separate 55-inch, 4K OLED displays in a circular formation. Building information modeling (BIM) can be used to experience a virtual, immersive look into a building or structure before it’s built.

The Cambre Atrium in the Chemical Engineering Building area was completed in December 2016. The continuous three-story atrium has suspended cloud ceiling lights and terrazzo flooring. Glassed-in labs, classrooms and office space allows students and guests to observe many of the teaching and research space, and carries out the theme of “Engineering on Display.”

The renovation and expansion project included a complete gutting of the old CEBA building. This area was once an open air courtyard, but is now an enclosed dining area called The Commons.