Science II work moves ahead

Work is progressing rapidly on the Science II Building at Fresno State.

The $22 million building is the largest academic building to be constructed on the Fresno State campus in a decade.

The new three-story building will add classrooms and labs to the campus as well as new faculty offices. It will be completed in 2005. It is the largest academic building constructed on campus since the Kremen School of Education was completed in 1994.

Within the last two weeks, concrete work in building “C” of the Science II complex of buildings was poured and reinforcing steel placement started in building “A” of the complex. Footing evacuation began for building "B" and all under slab plumbing and deep electrical systems are in place for the structures.

The new 71,000-square-foot building will include lecture halls and instructional labs for earth and environmental sciences and psychology classes. It also will house departmental offices for those two departments, plus the dean's complex for the College of Science and Mathematics. In addition, the new building provides space for 109 faculty offices.

Science II is slated to include graduate research and special instructional areas for the physics department to support the research needs of the Downing Planetarium.

The completion of the building will allow the demolition of the remaining San Ramon Buildings, temporary building that have survived since the 1960s.