Penn State officials and guests on Friday celebrated the start of construction for two new College of Engineering buildings on University Park’s West Campus, marking the beginning of a long-term plan to transform the facilities and footprint of the school’s largest academic program.
The “groundbreaking” ceremony, came well after the start of construction for the first of the buildings, counterintuitively called West 2, which began last September. But COVID-19 gathering restrictions were in place at the time and site work has only recently begun on the second building, dubbed West 1.
Located west of North Atherton Street and off of White Course Drive, the new buildings are the first phase of a