Getting Down to Business

After years of planning and fundraising and months of construction, UAlbany’s new School of Business building opens this fall. The 96,000-square-foot LEED-certified structure, designed by architect Perkins+Will and constructed by Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management, was completed at a cost of $64 million – $9.75 million of it from private sources. To date, 85 percent, or nearly $8.25 million, of the private funding has been raised.

Designed to accommodate 21st-century teaching and learning, the School of Business includes:

• one trading room
• 17 classrooms, including a specialized executive-education classroom, a computing classroom and an honors/enhanced classroom
• one business center
• one Student Services suite
• five labs
• one research computing lab
• one graduate student lounge
• one faculty lounge
• 11 seminar rooms
• two interview offices
• five conference rooms
• 10 group-study rooms
• Office of Career Services
• 50 faculty offices
• one café and seating area