Administrators at Binghamton University set an ambitious program to revamp their on-campus student housing after a study showed that the existing facilities required upgrades that would cost more than 80% of the cost of new structures. Rebuilding also fit the strategy for expanding their enrollment and realigning the facilities to group academic spaces better. Their plan involved eight buildings encompassing 1.130 million square feet, which had to be built on a fast-track schedule. To help achieve this, the designers specified load-bearing precast concrete wall panels, many embedded with thin brick.

API’s precast concrete scope:
• 226, 000 square feet of load-bearing architectural precast concrete wall panels