Current Buildings/Projects

Fine Arts 2 Building
Campus Housing
Academic Building 7 - College of Arts & Sciences Building
Naples Botanical Gardens - Classroom and Laboratory Building
Central Energy Plant Expansion - Phase 2
Addition to Student Union
Solar PV System

• Fine Arts 2 Building

  Architect - Reynolds Smith and Hills, Inc. Ft. Myers, Florida
  Consulting Architect - Pfeiffer Partners Architects
  Construction Manager - Owen-Ames-Kimball Company, Fort Myers, Florida

  Building Program
  Fact Sheet
  CM Selection Announcement **

  This new Florida Gulf Coast University academic building will be utilized by the College of Arts & Sciences, and will serve the Bower School of Music and the Visual & Performing Arts Programs. Eventually, the building will be constructed in three phases, however the professional services requested in this first phase is primarily centered on the needs of the Music Program. The architect selected will also provide master planning that will incorporate how subsequent construction phases could be added to the project in the future.

  The first phase of this project will include the following major areas within the building:

  • A first and second floor reception/lobby area
  • A recital/choral hall that seats 200 people
  • An instrument rehearsal hall that accommodates 100 people
  • An instrument storage room
  • Offices and studios for faculty
  • Music classrooms
  • A variety of practice rooms

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• Campus Housing

  	Visit Campus Housing's web site at http://studentservices.fgcu.edu/Housing/ for information.

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• Academic Building 7 - College of Arts & Sciences Building  (Web Cam)

  STH Architectural Group, West Palm Beach, Florida Kraft Construction, Naples, Florida In order for the campus to keep pace with the increases in the student population, this new Florida Gulf Coast University academic building will be utilized by the College of Arts & Sciences, and will serve a variety of science and math programs. Accordingly, this new building will provide additional spaces for CAS laboratory/lecture classrooms, administration and faculty/staff offices to supplement the adjacent Whitaker Hall building location. Likewise, in addition to the more traditional laboratories utilized by the sciences, the facilities program for this building also includes several areas to be utilized as SCALE-UP classrooms, which are predicated on problem-solving type of pedagogy and allows students work in "team" type of setting.

  The building will be four floors and total approximately 60,000 gross square feet. The major spaces in the building will include:

  • A Reception and Lobby Area
  • A Dean’s Suite of Offices
  • Laboratories for a variety of science and math curricula
  • Traditional Classrooms/Lecture Rooms
  • SCALE-UP Classrooms
  • Offices for Faculty and Adjuncts
  • Restrooms and Service Areas

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• Naples Botanical Gardens - Classroom and Laboratory Building

  Architecture, Inc., Fort Myers, Florida
  Kraft Construction, Naples, Florida

  Florida Gulf Coast University will build a new classroom and laboratory building on the site of the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, Florida. This building will provide shared use of the facility between FGCU and the NBG.

  The building will contain a total of approximately 15,000 square feet, and will be one story in height. The design of the building will be complimentary to the classroom and laboratory functions it will provide, and it may serve as a design standard for other future NBG facilities. The interior of the building will contain the following major rooms or areas:

  • A Reception and Lobby Area
  • A Conference Rooms
  • A Suite of Offices for Faculty and Staff
  • An Auditorium for large gatherings
  • Two Traditional Classrooms
  • Two Research Labs
  • A Lab/Lecture Classroom
  • A Lab Storage/Preparation Room

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• Central Energy Plant Expansion - Phase 2

  

  ATP Engineering South, Sarasota, Florida
  United Mechanical, Inc., Fort Myers, Florida
  

  Florida Gulf Coast University is currently in the process of an equipment expansion of the Central Energy Plant. The expansion is necessary to provide cooling to future planned university facilities. The current project scope includes removal of an existing outdated chiller and replacing it with a new 2100 ton centrifugal chiller. 54 thermal storage tanks will be added to the existing tank farm along with replacing cooling towers, associated piping, chemical treatment, controls and all electrical work necessary to complete the project.

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