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68 / BUILDING DIALOGUE / March 2021 this building help facilitate students’ curiosity and passion for agricultural science.” The new Shepardson Hall will sup- port the CAS’smission, including feeding theworld, for anoth- er 80 plus years. The north addition design includes an iconic big “A” for Ag- gies, as well as some of the building’s transparent standout features, including the labs and studios on the upper floors, a simulation lab, visualization room and large conference room. The south additionwill be centered around the 180-seat auditorium-in-the-round while the rest of the addition acts as a student-focused “mall” that creates “storefronts” to many key programmatic features, such as the Student Success Cen- ter, the café/coffee shop, the 90-seat classroom, and the “Inno- vation Gym” – a flexible collaboration-focused space that can be used for a variety of uses. Additionally, the Shepardson project is an integrated and progressive design-build delivery method based on own- er-provided criteria documents. The same design-build team of Adolfson & Peterson Construction and CannonDesign com- pleted CSU’s Health and Medical Center in 2017 and recently completed the new University of Colorado School of Medi- cine at CSU-Fort Collins in the previously shelled fourth-floor space. The CannonDesign and A&P team has found that the pro- gressive design-build method allows team members to bring more of their own creativity and innovation to the project, in lieu of the older form of design-build used on the Health and Medical Center, which started with bridging (design) doc- uments that were completed by CSU prior to the selection of the design-build team. Getting involved early in the process allowed the team to challenge each other to produce the best outcome for CSU and future generations of students. \\ / Shepardson Hall / OPENING ART: The south addition will be centered around the 180- seat auditorium-in-the-round while the rest of the addition acts as a student-focused “mall” that creates “storefronts” to many key programmatic features. ABOVE The north addition design includes an iconic big “A” for Aggies, as well as some of the building’s transparent standout features, including the labs and studios on the upper floors, a simulation lab, visualization room and large conference room.