Serving all student-athletes on UB鈥檚 14 varsity teams, the 12,000-square-foot, multilevel facility is directly connected to the Murchie Family Fieldhouse on UB鈥檚 North Campus. The state-of-the-art facility, designed by Architectural Resources of Buffalo, aims to elevate the training experience of UB鈥檚 student-athletes and foster excellence on the courts and fields of play, with features that include 18 free-weight training racks; a 42-foot, 17-degree turf training incline; and a 1,000-square-foot cardio mezzanine. The facility also expands administrative capacity with a new supplemental nutrition area, three offices and a conference room.听

鈥淎s (students) take full advantage of everything this stunning space has to offer, it is elevating their performance in their respective sports,鈥� said UB President Satish K. Tripathi at the grand opening celebration. 鈥淚n this way, the Brittany Murchie Mulla Sports Performance Center is emblematic of UB鈥檚 commitment to student success.鈥�听

The $7.9 million facility鈥檚 construction is part of a building boom happening across UB鈥檚 campuses, which will see $1.64 billion in construction planned over the next decade. Future projects will include classroom modernizations, new library spaces, a supercomputing center and a makeover for the existing Cooke-Hochstetter Science Complex.听听

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The new structure is the largest new building to have been erected in downtown Buffalo in recent decades and was constructed from sustainable materials and methods with the goal of obtaining LEED Gold certification.

Serving as construction manager,  (LiRo) partnered with Gilbane Building Company in the joint venture with architect  and general contractor LPCiminelli helping bring it to fruition. SUCF contracted with LiRo-Gilbane following the completion of the schematic design phase prior to its design development. All companies have offices in New York.

鈥淭his building fully integrates medical education into Buffalo鈥檚 growing academic health center, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and strengthening our relationships with our clinical partners,” said Michael Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences at UB and dean of the Jacobs School, in a statement. 鈥淎 medical school that is just steps away from UBMD Physicians鈥� Group at Conventus, John R. Oishei Children鈥檚 Hospital, Buffalo General Medical Center, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and all of our other partners will foster synergies that will expand and improve healthcare in Western New York.”

Funded through the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program, the $375 million Jacobs School is part of a larger initiative to encourage state economic growth as well as bolster public university and college academic programs. To that end, UB received $35 million in 2011 for the new building, which was administered through the Empire State Development Corporation and SUCF. Throughout, LiRo managed pre-construction and served as project manager for the general construction and the mechanical, electrical and plumbing aspects of the project.

The building鈥檚 striking aesthetic is largely the result of its terra cotta tile fa莽ade, which underlies its rain-screen system. The tile is a visual echo of the area’s historic buildings and required the use of nearly 27,000 locally made tiles.

Inasmuch as the exteriors are designed to reflect the look of local history, the interiors are a nod to new modalities of learning. The new Jacobs School building is designed to spur interactions among students and the faculty via the use of glass-enclosed and otherwise open spaces. The effort is meant to encourage chance encounters, as conference rooms surround a large central atrium and lounge furniture is arrayed in an open manner that enables group discussions. Many spaces are designed with flexible use-case scenarios in mind, from modular research laboratories that can expand and contract as necessary to desks that readily configure into tables for conferences.

“LiRo is proud to have overseen the construction of this world-class, $375 million hub for life science, technological innovation and learning,” observed Luis M. Tormenta, PE, LiRo鈥檚 CEO and vice chairman, in a statement. “We have delivered to the University at Buffalo an ultramodern facility that will serve its students, faculty, researchers and the community for a long time to come.”

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The $18 million facility is being constructed just north of the university鈥檚 current UB Stadium, and it will serve as an indoor practice facility, according to , the university鈥檚 student publication. Rochester, N.Y.-based LeChase Construction is serving as the general contractor, while New York-based CHA is serving as the architect.

The new 92,000-square-foot multi-use facility will house a full-size football field as well as a 6,000-foot rubber track for sprint practice, and long jump and pole vault pits. It will also feature motorized suspended softball-hitting tunnels, according to , another university publication. While there were rumors that the facility would only be used by Division I athletes and club sports, it will actually be available for all recreation programming and intramurals.

Because it鈥檚 housed indoors, the fieldhouse will help with year-round training. It will also help with future recruiting now that UB will offer competitive athletic facilities compared to other Mid-American Conference schools.  鈥淚t鈥檚 a very exciting time for us to get a fieldhouse,鈥� Football Head Coach Lance Leipold told UB Now. 鈥淭his has been a topic of conversation for 15 to 20 years, and to finally have this opportunity to provide our student athletes with an offseason place where they can work on their skills is tremendous. It鈥檚 going to benefit the whole athletic department, whether it be in a practice setting, a strength-and-conditioning session or student athletes working out on their own. It鈥檚 going to benefit each team in very unique ways.鈥�

The facility is being built with $3 million in donations from the Murchie family (and some football revenue). It will be named after the Murchies 鈥� Tunney Murchie is a former UB student athlete and played for the school鈥檚 now-retired Division I hockey team.

Construction on the fieldhouse is scheduled to be completed in spring 2019.

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