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. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Deeter, Ritchey, and Sippelhttp://ryan.library.cmu.edu/fmi/xsl/AA/browserecord.xsl?-lay=Layout+%231&-recid=6197&-find=-find and completed in 1971 at a cost of $15 million. The building was honored with both the Pennsylvania Society American Institute of Architects
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Honor Award and Distinguished Building Award. It was built with a gift from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and funds from the General State Authority. It stands on a 1.8 acres (7,284.3 m²) site that was formerly occupied by the National Guard's Logan Armory.http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittmiscpubs;cc=pittmiscpubs;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=benedum;rgn=full%20text;idno=00c50130m;didno=00c50130m;view=image;seq=0423
It is fourteen stories (two below ground) and has 419000 square feet (38,926.4 m²) of space. It is home to the Swanson School of Engineering
Swanson School of Engineering
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and contains classrooms, laboratories, offices, conference and seminar rooms, and is home to the George M. Bevier Engineering Library which serves not only the engineering school, but also the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Geology and Planetary Science. The wall panel behind the circulation desk of the library features a mural carved by Edward Catich
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. Benedum Hall also includes a computer lab and an Einstein's Express
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A $60 million Benedum Hall renovation and expansion project was launched in 2008. A new addition, a $16 million, 42000 square feet (3,901.9 m²) LEED
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designed structure for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, now connects what was previously the Engineering Auditorium to the second floor of the main tower across the previous existing plaza. Originally an essentially separate building only connected by the basement and sub-basement levels, the auditorium was reconfigured from its original 528-seat space into five separate classrooms. The Mascaro Center moved into its new accommodations in August 2009. In addition, the library, computer lab, club offices, and cafê moved to the basement level, administrative offices shifted to the first floor, and other floors of the tower were renovated. A $39.9 million Phase II of renovations to the subbasement, 3rd, 6th, 7th, and 8th floors, as well as the creation of a new 8000 square feet (743.2 m²) mezzanine level, was approved in November, 2010.
