BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Binghamton University on Wednesday dedicated its $30 million, 114,000-square-foot Center of Excellence building.
The facility is located on Murray Hill Road in Vestal, the school said in a news release distributed on Wednesday.
It joins the engineering and science building and biotechnology building at the Innovative Technologies Complex. A fourth building, the smart-energy research and development facility is under construction and should open in 2017.
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The small-scale systems integration and packaging center (S3IP) and its interdisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists recently moved into the glass, metal and stone building, the school said.
“We have provided infrastructure that will catalyze the advancements already being made by our researchers in the areas of microelectronics, data-center energy optimization, battery storage, autonomous solar power, as well as advanced materials and sensors,” Harvey Stenger, president of Binghamton University, said in the school’s news release. “Collaboration is what brought us to this point in our research efforts. Collaboration and the right environment, this building, will lead to path-breaking technologies in the future.”
The building’s construction generated nearly $16 million in economic impact and supported more than 180 jobs, the school said.
William Hall, Binghamton University’s in-house architect, designed the Center of Excellence building, it added.
Crews constructed the facility to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, featuring energy-efficient windows and skylights, along with a water-retention system and technology for heat recovery and humidity control.
New York in 2006 designated Binghamton’s S3IP as a center of excellence.
The center connects industry and academia with a focus on systems integration and packaging of electronics in the making of equipment and devices that improve how people live and interact with their surrounding, the school said.
Ongoing research focuses on electronics packaging, energy-smart electronic systems, flexible electronics, and energy harvesting and storage, it added.
“Today gives us an opportunity to reflect on the work we’ve done so far, including the more than $1 billion in economic impact on New York state and the nearly 2,000 jobs the center has helped to create or retain since 1996,” Bahgat Sammakia, vice president for research and S3IP director, said in the news release. “[On Thursday], we’ll get back to doing what we do best: making electronics that are smaller, lighter, smarter, greener and faster than the ones you have now.”
After a brief ceremony inside the building, Binghamton then unveiled two plaques outside the facility. The plaques honored the work of New York State Sen. Thomas Libous (R–Binghamton) and State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo (D–Endwell) in obtaining the state funding the school used to build the research facility, according to the news release.
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