WSSU CENTER FOR DESIGN INNOVATION   >   DESIGN FACILITY / HIGHER EDUCATION

Joint Venture Partner SRS, Inc

Architect Calloway Johnson Moore & West

Winston-Salem, NC

SIZE —

24,000 SF

PROJECT DELIVERY —

CM@RISK

Samet and SRS, Inc. collaborated with Winston-Salem State University, the UNC School of the Arts, and Forsyth Tech Community College to establish a shared research, design, and classroom facility. This facility, located on a rehabilitated brownfield site within the Winston-Salem State University campus, offers a modern center that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration encompassing research, technology, art, and science studies.

During the construction of these state-of-the-art buildings, Samet facilitated an on-site Building Information Modeling (BIM) kiosk. This resource provided all involved tradespeople with access to crucial models and drawings. The main facility is built with a structural steel frame, steel deck, and concrete floors, which resulted from formed concrete construction. The adjacent “cube” structure was constructed from twenty 56-foot precast panels, the transport of which required permits from the Department of Transportation.

AIA Award for Architectural Excellence, AIA Winston-Salem Chapter

This was a very complex project with a tight schedule, complex site issues and a surrounding environment that could not be disrupted by the construction process. The Samet team did an incredible job constructing this building with these parameters.

Mark S. Rickher, P.E

PRINCIPAL, LAURENE, RICKHER & SORRELL, P.C