As the year draws to an end, Ivy Tech Community College — Columbus has wrapped up the design development phase for its new building and plans to start construction in the new year.
Chancellor Steven Combs said that the building’s floor plan is “locked down,” and design development is complete.
“It gets real now,” Combs said. “So we’re excited to start to see the progress. And they’re going to start work here in January, getting our new building up and running. So we look forward to that.”
He added that the work starting in January will be more “light construction” or “grounds prep,” whereas heavy construction will likely begin around February or March.
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In February of 2020, Ivy Tech selected IwamotoScott Architecture of San Francisco to design its new main campus building in Columbus. A grant from Cummins Foundation Architecture Program will pay the architectural design fee for Ivy Tech’s new building. The new structure will replace the aging Poling Hall.
Communications coordinator Chris Schilling said that the building will be 80,943 square feet and that the college is authorized up to almost $32.88 million on the project, with fundraising.
Combs said earlier this year that the project isn’t just a new main campus building, but actually a completely new campus for Ivy Tech-Columbus, with the new building becoming the entryway to the Columbus AirPark and to the entire Learning Center campus.
The architect of record for the project is CSO Architects, and the contractor is Pepper Construction. Both are based in Indianapolis.
Combs has said in the past that the college hopes for occupancy in the summer of 2022 and final completion in December of 2022.
