Hofstra University recently held a grand opening for its new Northwell Science and Innovation Center. Located at the Hempstead, NY, campus, the $76.8 million, 75,000-sf facility is the most state-of-the-art high-tech addition to the university in 20 years.  

IMEG provided structural, MEP, fire protection, and civil services for the building, which houses the university’s School of Nursing and adds new laboratories and research space for the DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science. The adaptable building provides space for a simulation nursing training center, simulated patient exam rooms, multi-use classrooms, engineering, computer and other science laboratories, administrative and technology-driven workspaces, and dedicated areas for interdisciplinary research.  

The nursing simulation rooms feature high fidelity mannequins that talk, appear to be sick, and can even simulate giving birth in the labor and delivery room.  

For computer science students, the new center features a robotics room with a massive 3D printer, labs centered on virtual reality and gaming, a data center, tissue culture facility, makerspace for creating prototypes and an industrial engineering manufacturing lab.