The Facility for Outreach, Research, Training, and Education Project (“Project”) includes the interior renovation of the former Tuscaloosa Music Building to support SafeState’s mission and College of Engineering needs. This interior renovation will include the incorporation of staff offices, classrooms, and square footage for hands-on training in a high-bay space that will improve the teaching, learning, and working environments of campus and community constituents by providing a new, adequately sized, flexible space for the College of Engineering’s SafeState program.

The training rooms and demonstration lab will provide an environment for both practical SafeState classes and other training classes to meet College of Engineering needs. The ability to schedule classes in the College’s own facility to meet client needs will allow additional community outreach for the SafeState training programs.

Additionally, the demonstration lab space will allow for undergraduate hands-on education and graduate research to be incorporated into engineering classes. The shell lab space will be able to support future areas of research interests to The University of Alabama College of Engineering.

The Project will also address significant deferred maintenance and facility renewal liabilities by replacing existing mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, and fire suppression system to be code compliant.