A major construction project under way on campus is the renovation of the north and west wings of Brown Laboratory, which houses teaching and research labs for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The 80,000-square-foot renovation includes an infill in the building’s courtyard, where a 4,000-square-foot magnet hall will be installed between the north and south wings to meet current environmental and height requirements for nuclear magnetic resonance equipment.

“The project will effectively gut the west and north wings of the building, [and] the space will be reconfigured to meet the current teaching and research needs of the department,” Walter Roland, a senior project manager in Facilities Planning and Construction, says.

The building, located on The Green, was named in honor of H. Fletcher Brown, UD benefactor and member of the Board of Trustees from 1929-44. Similar renovations were made to the south wing in 1995-96. Tentative completion date for the project is December 2007.