Rowan University Campbell Library Renovation
Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ is a public research University known for its strong programs in engineering, education, business, and health sciences. The university's main campus is situated on 800 acres in Glassboro, New Jersey, with additional campuses in Camden and Stratford, New Jersey. The Campbell Library is the main library at Rowan University and provides a variety of services to assist students, faculty, and staff with their research and academic needs. The library is home to home to hundreds of thousands of print volumes as well as the University Archives & Special Collections, the RCA Heritage Museum, and the Performing Arts media collection. A critical facility to the campus, the library needed to change to accommodate its growing collections and accommodate the needs of staff and students alike. The university underwent a long planning phase seeking input from the community and the project will being moving into the building phase following 2024 commencement.
The project will reinvigorate the library as a flexible, inclusive, and student-centric facility. The renovation focuses building on what is working well in the library now, and to better equip the facility to handle future needs. The renovation will phase construction floor by floor with the building will maintaining its original footprint but reducing the number of stacks for print books and adding more space for students to interact and study.
Axias was engaged by Rowan University off our on-call contract for cost estimating services. We provided an independent third-party cost estimate based on the 75% CD documents for the first two phases of the project covering floors one through six and 130,000 SF. This estimate will help validate the current project budget and give the university more confidence in the project’s financial feasibility as the project moves into the construction phase.