University of Washington and Cascadia College Innovation Hall

The Project

Innovation Hall is the first academic building in the nation shared by a community college and a university. Using a progressive design-build delivery, the wider project team, led by Lease Crutcher Lewis and design firm Mithun, leaned on its collective knowledge and resources to navigate a variety of unexpected hurdles to maximize value for both owners.

About

The 80,000-square-foot Innovation Hall offers programs including biology, chemistry, computer science, physics and electrical and mechanical engineering, with classes open to both institutions.

Location

Bothell, Washington

Client

University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College

Awards

AGC of Washington, Build Washington Awards, Winner, Public Building: $50M–$100M, 2024

PDB Case Study

The team's approach to progressive design-build delivery resulted in a project 12% bigger than comparably-priced academic buildings.

The resulting project allows for more instructional space—more labs, more classrooms, and more collaboration and faculty space for both institutions—and while serving an additional 72 full-time students each year. The team achieved this while weathering strikes, material cost hyper-escalation, and supply chain shocks from COVID without added cost to the owners.

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