Cannon Design completes the two-phase $18.6m Academic Complex at Niagara University project

The state-of-the-art Academic Complex at Niagara University houses the University's College of Education and College of Business, combining new construction and renovation. Phase 1 is a three-story, 35,300 s/f building housing the College of Education. It contains six classrooms with varying degrees of technical infrastructure; offices for the dean, faculty, and student-teaching supervisors; a conference room; and related support areas. An additional one-story section houses the Centers for Literacy and Family Support. Phase 2 encompassed the complete renovation of Perboyre Hall, an existing four-story building, to provide offices for 20 faculty, the dean, and the MBA program. A two-story, 10,700 s/f addition houses conference rooms; classrooms; programs in family business and entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and international accounting; and a financial services laboratory—a high-tech classroom that functions as a stock-exchange learning center and lab for several other finance and informatics functions. An atrium connects the addition to Perboyre Hall, serving as the entry to the entire complex. Cannon Design served as the architect/engineer/planner/interior designer for the $18.6 million project. Cannon Design employs a staff of over 750, delivering services in 14 offices throughout North America, as well as abroad in Shanghai, China.