CUNY Master Plan 2012-2016

MISSION PART FOUR
junction with the State University Construction Fund for SUNY colleges. Due to the age and magnitude
of the facilities portfolio, the University requested $2.6 billion over the five-year period for this initiative
as well as individual projects lined out for each of the schools. The $284 million appropriated in the 2011-
12 budget will initiate this work at the senior colleges, and the remaining balance will be requested in
upcoming budget requests.
Several active projects received the funding required for completion or to progress to the next phase in
the 2011-12 budget. These projects include everything from building renovations to new, large mixed-use
facilities. The projects address the Chancellor’s Decade of Science initiative, space deficits, and infrastructure
requirements, as well as replacement of obsolete buildings and quality of life improvements on
the campuses.
The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Phase I and the CCNY Science Facility are separate
entities with shared core science facilities and amenities and are in construction on the South Campus of
City College, with anticipated completion in summer 2014. Phase I of the ASRC (described in the section
“The Decade of Science”) will be a shared research facility that supports the concept of an integrated university
by providing state-of-the-art laboratories and core facilities in one location for specific members
of University’s research faculty. At City College, the Science Division currently occupies facilities that
cannot be cost effectively renovated to support research at the College. The new four-story Science
Building will address this need by providing an additional 200,000 gross square feet (GSF) of research
space, and the first of the two ASRC buildings will be a 189,000 GSF, five-story building. In a joint venture,
the firms of Flad & Associates and Kohn Pederson Fox Associates (KPF) have designed these two
buildings, and construction began in summer 2008. The two-building complex will be constructed at a
total estimated cost of $744 million. Design funds for Phase II of the ASRC, a 215,000 GSF building, contiguous
with the Phase I building, are requested in year 2013-2014 of the next budget cycle.
At Lehman College the University is also constructing a new science building in two phases. The first
phase building, designed by the firm of Perkins + Will, will be a learning tool, as Lehman’s premiere science
programs focus on the plant sciences and ecology. Within the interior courtyard a “living-machine”
will use plant life to recycle water for toilets in the building. The state provided $78.7 million in the prior
five-year capital plan for the Phase I portion of the building, which will provide 66,185 GSF of space for
instructional and some research use. Construction began in summer 2008. Funding for the Phase II portion,
at an estimated cost of $242 million, was requested in the new FY 2012-2017 Five-Year Capital
Budget Request.
The state previously provided appropriations for the Roosevelt Hall project at Brooklyn College.
Brooklyn College’s 1995 master plan recommended renovation of Roosevelt Hall, an existing 1937 physical
education building, for use as a science building. The University has determined that the existing
structure cannot be converted for this use and must be demolished in order to create an appropriate science
facility for the College. CUNY hired the firm of Mitchell/Giurgola to design Phase I, a 180,000 GSF
instructional building. The new facility will house the lower-level instructional labs across the science
disciplines at Brooklyn College. This interdisciplinary approach will highlight all of the science pro-
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