Michigan State University STEM Teaching and Learning Facility
Michigan State University STEM Teaching and Learning Facility
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With its new STEM Teaching and Learning Facility, Michigan State University is building a future with strong roots in the past. This adaptive reuse comprises a campus power plant decommissioned in the 1970s. Historical elements, like a massive original boiler and ash silo, were carefully cleaned and refurbished to provide meaningful touchpoints to the past. New building materials – including laminated mass wood and SunGuard™ SNX 62/67 coating on clear glass – were selected to enhance sustainability and to create a warm, café-like experience for students and professors. This low-E coated performance glass offers an extremely high light-to-solar-heat-gain ratio to help keep interiors comfortable, efficient and bright – an excellent choice to breathe new life into an older building. The STEM gateway courses offered in this teaching and learning facility will serve MSU students pursuing a spectrum of studies, including physics and chemistry, technology and material science. This wide community of Spartans will shape the future with what they learn here amid history and innovations.