Project Work - Summer 2004

Following the design and construction of Hillel’s Steinhardt Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, the firm is designing The Edward H. Rosen Center for Jewish Life at Temple University. The 15,000 sf structure will include dining, academic and social facilities for the growing Jewish student population on the campus.

Also for Temple University School of Medicine, the firm is completing the renovation of the 6th Floor of the Kresge Building, a 9,000 sf research lab floor. that is the forerunner of the labs to be designed for the new school of medicine research building. This project has been used to settle a number of design and detail issues, including the use of mobile and flexible casework, electrical and service distribution, and equipment accommodation that will be incorporated in the design of the School’s new medical research building.

Work is continuing on the $40 million expansion of a large regional corporate headquarters facility in the Philadelphia suburbs. The expansion involves a new 96,000 sf office facility and a 400 car structured parking garage. Schematic design has been approved and our design team is in the land development approval process.

Cephalon Inc., the biotech company, is in the midst of a restructuring of its research facilities outside of West Chester, PA. Jacobs/Wyper developed the restructuring master plan and is implementing it in a multi-phase construction project valued at $26 million.

Jacobs/Wyper is developing another engineering and track maintenance facility for Amtrak at Hunter Yard in Newark, DE. This 44,000 sf facility will house offices and maintenance shops for several operating units ­ Buildings and Bridges, Communications and Signals, Electric Traction and Track - as well as storage for track maintenance rail vehicles. The $8 million facility is expected to be constructed in 2007.

Jacobs/Wyper has designed for AstraZeneca a new 19 bed Clinical Pharmacology Unit at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The $2 million project started construction in April 2006.

At West Laurel Hill Cemetery outside of Philadelphia, the Firm recently completed a family memorial that consisted of a 160 sf open air pavilion designed after Andreas Palladio and three underground vaults. The pavilion was detailed in Barre Granite and was quarried and fabricated by Rock of Ages Memorials of Barre, Vermont.