Higher Education Projects

Layton was selected as the builder for the UCF Lake Nona Medical Center project, based largely on the expertise of the assembled team, including our experience in pull planning and technologies like BIM 360 as well as our subcontractor selection. We chose trusted subcontractors to ensure both our and our client’s expectations were understood from the beginning.

Completed in 2019, the Dixie State University Human Performance Center is an award-winning hub for students and faculty focused on fitness. It is equipped to host local, regional, and state high school games, swim meets, Huntsman World Senior Games competitions, and community-sponsored sporting events.

LF Driscoll teamed up with Pennsylvania’s largest university, Penn State University, to continue with the institute’s 2015 launch of Invent Penn State. In conjunction with the launch, the project team replaced the former James Building in downtown State College with a technology-focused entrepreneurial hub for students and local start-ups to collaborate and advance their ideas.

In collaboration with architect G70, Layton Construction led a design-build project for the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Life Sciences Building. The process began with a demolition of the university’s existing structure, Henke Hall, and the removal and replacement of contaminated soil for the new facility. Through BIM 360 Field Software, the Layton team identified, tracked, and backchecked all field issues during the construction process.

Located in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, the new 85,000sf Michael J. Bouwhuis Allied Health Building at Davis Technical College in Kaysville has officially added a new and modern state-of-the-art facility. The building currently houses nurse training programs, including CNA, practical nursing, and medical assisting, not to mention surgical technology, radiology technician, and health and information technology. Layton Construction's project team collaborated with other project partners to ensure that the project was designed and constructed with a bold vision in mind.

The UNF Biological Sciences Building project consisted of a new 116,500sf Teaching and Research Facility with the Coastal Biology Program as the flagship of the department.

The University of Florida Health East Entry Atrium and Façade project design included the attachment of a two-layered structural steel framework on the east façade of the existing 12-story north tower at Shands Hospital. 

As part of a major capital campaign, Villanova University redeveloped the southern part of their campus. Previously a wide-open parking lot, the area now hosts student housing, retail, dining and The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts Center (PAC), the crown jewel of the development. The PAC contains a traditional and a Black Box theater, classrooms, a dance studio and costume and scenery shops. 

To establish international squash court standards, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) determined that it would be necessary to build a brand-new facility. A major difficulty was the demolition of the existing building and completion of a new building within 15 months. After weeks of working on the various aspects of preconstruction, it was deemed that this was not feasible. LF Driscoll – in conjunction with EwingCole and the UPenn Facilities Department – embarked on a significant value engineering exercise to evaluate renovating the existing structure within the allocated timeframe. After intensive investigation and alternatives evaluation, a solution was developed to renovation the existing courts.

The Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare combines world-class health care with a state-of-the-art building designed to facilitate learning in health teams. In 2006, Ajax started work on the Utility Infrastructure for the new six-story, 194,000sf Patient Care Medical Facility.