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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 1213002, member: 5058"] The Master Plan is being done by Sasaki Associates in Boston. They have done a lot of large scale master plans and also specialize in sports venues. They did the Bejing Olympics, and a BC mater plan recently to name a few. That said, there is a new master plan created about every 5-8 years. There was recently one done by Ayers Saint Gross of Baltimore (Gross is an SU grad) and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, done about the same time they designed Eggers Hall. It is pretty frequent that very little actual building comes out of these. One building and some landscape projects at most. This is where the Grove and the new Slocum bus stop came from and eventually the new science building. As to research, this is typically scientific/medical research. SU really has no substantial science facilities compared to most other major universities. Syverud is from Wash.U in St.Louis, where research and federal funding make that university. Wash U also has great programs in things like Architecture, but their academic prowess is from their research and med. programs. Many high academic universities have separate "research" or "science" quads. It seems feasible that without the real estate to do this en mass on the main campus, this could easily take the land at Skytop, especially if the Dome stays. The "Center For Excellence" on Erie was primarily state funded and is indicative of the type of growth the state wants to invest in and is willing to incentivize. This facility focuses on environmental and building technology research to advance green design and building techniques. I assume there is a "lease agreement" that the state funds lower rent on the research, but gets a piece of any product or patent that comes out of it. The true intent is to keep high tech jobs in NY and specifically in the "upstate" regions. The hard roof on the Dome is a BIG challenge, no matter how appropriate. There is no room to add substantial structure for that roof. Wind uploads and snow live loads are likely ot be immense in that area, and with the "surprise" Buffalo storm, those requirements are likely ot increase, as we tend to be very reactionary. I believe the Gov. has already said he wants to create a NY weather service independent of the National Weather Service, and twice its currnet NY footprint (2x the weather reporting stations). [/QUOTE]

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