Shelby Center for Engineering Technology

Auburn, Alabama

The Shelby Center for Engineering Technology is the new home of Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. The 3-story, 184,000 square foot facility houses administrative, classroom, and research space and has a 165 seat lecture hall. Its federal style architecture incorporates rich limestone and brick with precast concrete accents. An open air arcade with groin-vaulted ceilings is located at the south elevation of the L-shaped buildings. The grand foyer in the central pavilion is stunning with floors and staircases of epoxy terrazzo and walls of limestone, granite, and book-matched cherry wood panels. Laboratories are finished with wood casework, static dissipative tile to facilitate electrical experiments, and everything necessary for graduate level research. Hoar served as Construction Manager overseeing multiple prime contractors administering the design and preconstruction phases, the bid process and construction through to occupancy.