Design-build team announced for CSU’s $81.9M biology building

FORT COLLINS — The Denver-based design-build team of Hord Coplan Macht Architects and Haselden Construction were selected to complete design and construction for Colorado State University’s new $81.9 million biology building on the Fort Collins campus, the companies announced Wednesday.

Hord Coplan Macht started design work on the building on July 15, a company spokeswoman said, and construction is slated to begin in late October.

The 152,000-square-foot classroom and research facility will anchor the eastern edge of CSU’s new “science commons” at South Pitkin and East streets. The building is being designed as a campus destination with large, two-story “idea spaces” for students and faculty to collaborate outside the research and teaching laboratories.

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Baltimore-based Hord Coplan Macht, which merged with Denver-based SlaterPaull Architects last year, is working on the CSU campus with Ratio Architects on a $56 million, 60,000 square foot chemistry building. The combined biology and chemistry buildings total $136 million in new construction on campus.

Bond sales in 2015 to finance the biology building as well as medical buildings and several other new facilities on campus including a new $220 million football stadium have pushed the university’s debt load to at least $1.1 billion.