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…