Le Moyne College dedicated its new state-of-the-art science complex in a “Celebration of Science,” on Thursday, February 16.
Built on-time and under budget, the $20 million building was constructed in just over a year-and-a-half. Located on the northern ridge of the campus, the building is connected to the Coyne Science Center, one of the College’s original structures. The College’s physician assistant program will occupy the third floor of the structure, and the classrooms and laboratories on the basement, first and second floors will support other health service disciplines, as well as biology and physics.
Positioned to the south to capitalize upon solar resources, the building maximizes the use of sunlight for solar thermal heat and the harvest of best quality sunlight for daylight use. The building also features an “energy wall” that combines day lighting, solar preheating of building ventilation air, direct solar gain through glazing, and indirect gain and thermal storage via trombe walls. It is expected to earn LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
George V. Coyne, S.J., an astronomer and the McDevitt Chair in Religious Philosophy, gave the keynote address at 4:30 p.m. in the new building's lecture hall, followed by a blesssing and ribbon cutting.