New Building Nears Completion

 Since groundbreaking last December, Building 646 has taken shape. Scheduled for occupancy in the summer of 2008, Building 646 will increase AFIT’s overall footprint by 50,000 square feet.  The new building will house the faculty and staff of the Center for Systems Engineering, and will also contain classrooms, a distance learning studio, two secure classrooms, three breakout rooms, a couple of presentation rooms, and computer laboratory facilities that will enable AFIT’s graduates to conduct state-of-the art, interdisciplinary, Air Force-sponsored research.  AFIT’s command section will also be moving into the new building.

 Meanwhile,  the second floor of Building 641 is undergoing a complete renovation to accommodate office suites for three departments from the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, conference rooms, and classrooms. When this is completed in summer of 2008, the third floor will be redesigned, with some office space and conference rooms, but will largely be left as open-bay areas for cubicles for the return of  the School of Systems and Logistics from their current location in Research Park .  On the first floor,  the two video-teleconferencing classrooms will be merged  into one larger, 80-person classroom, but both halves will maintain independent VTC capability for use as two rooms, when  necessary.  

AFIT also has plans for another new building, Building 647, starting in fiscal year 2011.  That facility, planned at $16 million and 57,000 square feet, would house the laboratories and research centers currently scattered around the base in Buildings 168, 194, and 470.

                                                                                                                                     From AFIT/PA Dec 10 2007