Sweden-headquartered Skanska has topped out the Integrative Sciences Building at North Carolina State University, the company announced in a release this week.
Construction on the $136.7 million, 164,947-square-foot STEM research facility began last May. The final product, which Skanska anticipates delivering in fall 2026, will feature classrooms, teaching labs, core research facilities, collaboration and study spaces, office areas and a café.
The project team held a topping-out ceremony to celebrate the culmination of the structural phase of the building, with Skanska and NC State representatives signing the final beam. The project will eventually include:
- Over 134,000 cubic feet of concrete.
- Over 1,000 tons of structural steel for the skeleton frame.
- 128 fume hoods for research.
- An air-handling unit with a capacity of over 190,000 cubic feet per minute.
This isn’t the first project Skanska has delivered for NC State. The builder has also constructed Fitts-Woolard Hall, the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library and Engineering Building III.
With a regional office in Durham, North Carolina, Skanska USA says it has completed nearly $3 billion in work in Virginia and North Carolina over the last decade, with $640 million in current projects in progress in the two states.
