Colorado Mesa University, Wubben Hall Renovation and Addition
Clark & Enersen worked with Colorado Mesa University to provide critical upgrades to 80,000 square feet of its Wubben Hall and Science Center and design a 31,900-square-foot addition. This work was carefully coordinated to allow for continuous operation of occupied portions of the facility.
The Science Center renovations include an upgraded layout and re-organized spaces to accommodate biology, chemistry, and environmental science curriculum. The Wubben Hall renovations involved installing a geothermal heating and cooling system, relocating and upgrading electrical service, and modernizing existing physical, mathematics, and computer science classrooms and labs.
The three-story addition is a LEED Silver Certified facility that features such sustainable technologies as a central geothermal pump station that serves the whole campus, a low-albedo roof, and daylight-activated lighting controls. It also offers classroom and research spaces that extend toward the campus quad.
On the roof of the addition is a teaching and research greenhouse that expands the capabilities of the plant biology curriculum. This structure is separated into two cells, each with independent climate control, that are used to simulate climates along the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. There is also a head house connected directly to the Plant Biology Teaching Laboratory. Both areas provide roughly 1,300 net square feet of combined space.
Stats and Results
| Location | Grand Junction, Colorado |
| Square Feet | 111,900 |
| LEED Certification | Silver |
