Skirkanich

<p>Anyone hear anything about the completion of the new bioengineering building? I haven’t been on campus since April and it was nowhere near complete then. Have they/will they finish it in time for class this Fall?</p>

<p>what part of the campus was it being constructed. I visited twice in the last month or so and I know that there was some construction going on.</p>

<p>It's across from David Rittenhouse Lab on 34th street I think.</p>

<p>I wouldn't say it was nowhere close to being done in April... I had classes in DRL everyday and walked by it repeatedly, and they made tremendous progress on it all year. I also heard (before leaving campus) that it was perfectly on schedule... I just don't remember when it was due to be complete.</p>

<p>I've always heard that it would be completed some time this upcoming semester.</p>

<p>i was a bioengineering major and they said it would be done by my soph year (which is 06). now i switched out and i dont want to look at the building again. but it's supposed to be really beautiful though..</p>

<p>According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the building should have opened by mid-June. I would expect it to take some time for faculty to move into it though, maybe in time for the fall semester.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/447e5ff8377e4?in_archive=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/447e5ff8377e4?in_archive=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>ah, thanks for the clarification abhim... i guess i must have gotten it confused with one of the other ongoing construction projects. In any case, hopefully it's ready to go for the upcoming year.</p>

<p>does anyone know about how many building projects there are? Because I saw a lot of them.</p>

<p>what is "the hub"?</p>

<p>well i snuck into skirkanich a few weeks ago and it wasn't quite ready; an email sent to all BE students said that it will be open for class on 9/1 (and several lab facilities are already up and running).</p>