Nanotech Building Info
Here is some great information about the new buildings going up on campus. Its came from the April 6th, UW Bulletin.
Approval was given to "the conceptual design" for what's now being called the Quantum-Nano Centre. It's a big building -- about 250,000 square feet, almost as big as the Davis Centre -- to be shared by the nanotechnology engineering program and the Institute for Quantum Computing. The official construction budget is $70 million, although provost Amit Chakma told the board it's becoming clear that that won't be enough. "We'll come back to you with a business plan," he promised.
The building is going on a site north of Biology II, and will be linked at upper levels to both that building and Math and Computer. There will still be outdoor pathways at ground level on both sides of the building. It's to be five stories high, and organized as two main pieces: a narrow east-west block on the north side, mostly for IQC, and a squarish southern piece, mostly for nano.
It'll be "the most sophisticated building ever built on campus", said vice-president (administration and finance) Dennis Huber. Among its features: two atriums, a "green" roof, a cantilevered wing pointing toward the ring road (as pictured above), and main entrances for IQC (on the ring road side) and nano (facing Chemistry II).