GGC Instructional Laboratory

Georgia Gwinnett College broke ground on its new instructional laboratory facility Friday, February 18 at 2:00 p.m. Less than six months later, on August 2, 2011, the ribbon was cut on the facility, which will enable the College to maintain state-of-the-art science instruction for a growing number of juniors and seniors enrolled in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines.

The new $7 million, 24,000-sq. ft. building, will feature seven modern multi-disciplinary laboratories. They will be equipped with an advanced audio visual system, including high-definition and three-dimensional imaging capabilities. Each laboratory will accommodate 24 students.

The facility is designed for eventual incorporation into the College’s planned Allied Health & Sciences building. It will feature brick, glass and metal architecture that will complement existing campus buildings. The structure includes a row of laboratories, fronted by windows into an atrium-like hallway that will run the full length of the facility.

The building will house a computational resource center and two integrated classroom-laboratory spaces for anatomy and physiology, and physics.  In addition three laboratories customized for physical science, chemistry and advanced biology courses and an interdisciplinary faculty-student research lab are included.

The laboratories will enable the College to enroll up to 8,500 students, a number that President Kaufman expects to achieve in fall 2011.