The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology will break ground Monday, May 18 on the Chemical and Biological Engineering/Chemistry Building (CBE/C), a project that will transform the educational experience for School of Mines students.
The ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the area between the Mineral Industries Building and the Chemistry Building on the School of Mines campus. Refreshments will be served immediately afterward in the Surbeck Center South Lounge. The School of Mines invites the community and members of the media to attend as the face of the campus is forever changed.
All of the more than 2,000 students that attend the School of Mines each year will take classes and labs in this building. The new building, when fully completed, will upgrade a 50-year-old facility that has outlived its purpose for academic laboratory instruction.
The CBE/C Building will incorporate state-of-the art graduate and undergraduate research space. The layout of the laboratories provides for innovative ways to conduct collaborative and multi-disciplinary research. This building will have modern laboratory space that will serve as the vehicle for conducting research for the enhancement of undergraduate and graduate education while affording the potential for economic development for Rapid City and the state of South Dakota.
This new facility will foster the growth of rapidly-emerging technologies, such as ethanol, fuel production, food and agricultural processing, and environmentally-friendly plastics and coatings. Equally important is that the building will be a campus showpiece that will aid in the recruitment and retention of students and faculty.
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