SWBR, with input from SUNY Geneseo and the State University Construction Fund (SUCF), designed a renovation to Bailey Hall that radically reconfigured this former “hard” sciences building into a social sciences center facing the campus’ formal College Green.
The building opened in 1965 as the Bailey science building housing physical sciences such as chemistry, biology and physics. But when the college’s Integrated Science Center opened in 2006, the physical sciences moved there, allowing the college to begin the Bailey Hall renovation. The result is a larger, more energy-efficient building containing modern classrooms, offices and laboratory space. The $23 million project was completed in two years and was LEED Silver Certified by USGBC in 2015.