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Plans for a new, $228 million Penn State College of Engineering building on West Campus are moving forward following a recommendation for approval on Thursday by a university’s Board of Trustees Committee on Finance Business and Capital Planning. The full board will vote on approving the plans and authorizing the funds during its meeting on Friday. At 290,000 square feet, Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1, also known as West 1, will be Penn State’s largest academic facility. West 1, which will be located just off of White Course Drive north of the Earth and Engineering Sciences, i...

Penn State set to approve $228M engineering building, the first part of a West Campus revitalization Updated 10:32 PM; Penn State is inching closer to spending $228 million on the construction of West 1, a new engineering building that would become one of the largest academic facilities on the University Park campus. The board of trustees’ Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning unanimously voted to recommend approving the move to the full board, which is expected to formally OK the plan Friday. West 1, also known as Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1, will be 290,000 sq...

Penn State’s Board of Trustees met Friday to unanimously approve plans for and authorize the use of funds to construct a new College of Engineering building on the west side of campus. The building, known as Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1 or West 1, will span 290,000 square feet, easily making it the largest academic facility on campus. It will be located just off of White Course Drive north of the Earth and Engineering Sciences. The facility’s $228 million construction is part of the university’s multi-phase plan to boost the College of Engineering’s facilities and resour...