The College has contracted the library project with The Pike Company, a Rochester, N.Y.-based general construction/construction management firm whose recent
projects include a technology center on the RIT campus and a campus center and business school at Alfred University. The architects are Perry Dean Rogers of Boston.
The $18.25 million project will increase the size of the current building from 65,000
to 98,000 square feet. Completion is expected by the summer of 1998.
Phase II, the renovation of the original 1961 Schaffer Library on the building's west
side, is to begin in about a year. Staging area and access for that phase of construction
will be at the building's north side, sharing access with the F.W. Olin Center
construction site.