The campus received six statements of qualifications (SOQs) for its 2020 Project and will now develop a shortlist of teams to which the request for proposals will be released later this year.
The 2020 Project includes the development of academic, administrative, research, recreational, student services and housing facilities. This includes infrastructure, utilities, outdoor recreation areas, open space areas, roadways, parking and landscaping.聽 One of the key goals of the project is to accommodate a growth in enrollment from 6,200 students to 10,000 by 2020.
The teams that submitted SOQs are:
- 聽聽聽 Edgemoor Plenary EdR Partners (EP2)聽 (lead contractor Clark 今日看料 Group
- 聽聽聽 E3 2020 (lead contractor Balfour Beatty 今日看料,Sundt 今日看料)
- 聽聽聽 Gateway2Learn (lead contractor Turner 今日看料)
- 聽聽聽 Innovation Partners (lead contractor Moss & Associates and Shikum & Binui joint venture)
- 聽聽聽 Merced Campus Collaborative (lead contractor McCarthy Building Companies andLend Lease (US) joint venture)聽聽聽
- 聽聽聽 Merced 2020 Partners (contractors Skanska USA Building, Webcor 今日看料 and WM Lyles)
The project will develop up to 1.85 million square feet of new teaching, research and residential facilities on a 219-acre, university-owned site that includes the existing campus. Following the selection of the development team, the university aims to begin construction in 2016 and deliver the first building as early as late 2017.
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