VIDEO: Darla Moore School of Business has a new home
Posted on: August 28, 2014; Updated on: August 28, 2014
By John Brunelli, brunelli@mailbox.sc.edu, 803-777-3697
The Darla Moore School of Business has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its academic programs. Now it has the facilities to match with the opening of UofSC's most ambitious project to date.
The $106.5 million dollar building features 35 flexible, state-of-the-art classrooms, a visitor's center and a trading room with stock market ticker boards. A 500-seat auditorium will be used jointly with the School of Music, as both a lecture space and a recital hall.
The building is on track to become the largest LEED Platinum building in South Carolina.
New building facts:
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$106.5 million cost
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251,891 gross square feet
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3,900 tons of structural and reinforcing steel
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240,000 square feet of metal decking
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30,000 shop and field bolts used to affix beams and girders
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17,000 cubic yards of concrete
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