Construction is underway for the comprehensive renovation of the Physics building at the University of Virginia. To meet 21st-century instructional methods, the instructional spaces were redesigned for an active learning environment where most classrooms are integrated laboratory and wet-laboratory spaces. Modern, energy-efficient, and adaptable infrastructure replaces aging and antiquated systems. The design modernizes the building and systems while maintaining its historic integrity and provides sophisticated and multi-disciplinary research and learning spaces; it increases flexibility for evolving programs and changes in pedagogy; it improves thermal control and safety, and it brings the building into code compliance.
The renovation is being completed through an occupied-phased construction process and is scheduled to be completed in time for the 2024-2025 academic year.
