Quinsigamond Community College - QuEST Center

This building provides a modern science teaching space to supplement the overcrowded forty-year old existing labs and instructional space, offices, and support space for the its technology programs.

The QuEST Center, which stands for Quinsigamond Engineering, Science and Technology Center, is significant in that it is the latest in QCC’s efforts to address the area’s growing need for skilled workers in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical engineering, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, electromechanical technology/robotics and automation, as well as energy utility technology.

Project Details

Designer: Perry Dean Rogers Partners
Construction Manager: Daniel O’Connell’s Sons
Project Type: CM at Risk
Project Cost: $23,106,943
Gross Square Feet: 34,000
Substantial Completion Date: Winter 2016

Project Features

• Design of the new building emphasizes energy and water efficient technologies
• The architecture encourages student interaction and put science and sustainable technology on display
• Siting of the building implements the College master framework plan for a new collegiate landscape
• Siting and architecture addresses accessibility issues presented by the College’s hillside campus