CEI holding groundbreaking for new 88,000-square-foot Future Tech building

The pursuing is simply a news merchandise from College of Eastern Idaho.

IDAHO FALLS – College of Eastern Idaho will clasp a groundbreaking ceremonial for nan caller Future Tech building connected Thursday, August 1, astatine 9:30 a.m.

The organization is invited to be and participate successful nan celebration.

After a three-year effort, nan building of nan two-level, 88,000-square-foot energy, innovation, and exertion building has begun connected nan northbound extremity of campus.

The State of Idaho Department of Public Works selected Andersen Construction arsenic nan General Contractor for nan task astatine a “guaranteed maximum price” of $36,407,023. The money is being provided by authorities costs and generous donations from nan backstage sector.

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The state-of-the-art Future Tech building will not only beryllium a assets for CEI but besides an plus for nan full community. The College enjoys awesome partnerships pinch businesses and nan organization astatine large. Its ngo is to thrust economical improvement done costs effective higher education.

Rendering of nan caller Future Tech building | Courtesy CEI

In summation to schoolroom space, nan building has areas suitable for larger gatherings — including business and civic events, collaboration abstraction for students, and bay space. As its sanction suggests, nan architectural creation incorporates vanguard technologies engineered into nan building itself. The school abstraction is purposed to behaviour immoderate of nan College’s astir cutting-edge programs specified arsenic — cyber security, power systems, mechatronics, atomic technology, artillery and star technologies.

“We are simply bursting astatine nan seams present connected campus,” commented CEI outgoing President Rick Aman, “lack of schoolroom abstraction limits our capacity to thatch and train graduates for family costs jobs. The 88,000 quadrate ft Future Tech Building goes a agelong measurement to solving these challenges pinch school abstraction that is some elastic and state-of-the-art. The readying squad designed Future Tech afloat astir nan usage of this building arsenic a school tool, a ‘Swiss service knife’ … a multi-tooled, multi-functional, multi-purpose facility.”

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