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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 16, 2016
North Branch Const. begins new 16,000 s/f Colby-Sawyer College Fine and Performing Arts Center
Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC) at Colby-Sawyer College - New London, NHNew London, NH North Branch Construction began construction of the $7 million Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC) at Colby-Sawyer College. The new 16,000 s/f single story facility will feature a black box theater, fine art gallery, studios for ceramics, sculpture, painting, and graphic design, outdoor art areas, along with faculty offices and support areas.
The college’s goal is to unify the instructional, performance, and exhibit spaces essential to its art program into one facility. The building will be located at the south end of the core campus as part of a developing academic quad. The new FPAC is being built on the former site of Colby Farm, a single-family residence owned by the Colby-Sawyer College, which has been demolished. In order to reduce construction waste and preserve parts of Colby Farm, Deconstruction Works of VT salvaged materials from the demolished farmhouse to be used in future construction projects across New England, including the reutilization of the farmhouse’s wide plank wooden floors within the FPAC.
The new FPAC will be located near Colby-Sawyer College’s Silver Level LEED Certified Windy Hill School, an early childhood laboratory school built by North Branch Construction in 2010.
Construction is expected to be complete by summer 2017. Design for the Colby-Sawyer project was provided by The S/L/A/M Collaborative.
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