Site work has begun for the new Health Sciences and Technology Building at Roane State’s Oak Ridge campus. (Photo courtesy of RSCC/Aerial Innovations of Tennessee)
After years of planning and fundraising, work has begun on a major expansion of the Roane State Community College campus in Oak Ridge.
The $13.8 million project will feature a new three-story Health Sciences and Technology Building.
Land has been cleared for the 64,000-square-foot building, and drilling for geothermal wells has started, a Roane State press release said.
It said the building’s foundation will be “under way and out of the ground” in mid-October. Work on the building could be complete by January 2014.
Roane State’s Oak Ridge campus opened in 1999. Originally designed for 1,800 students, the campus now has about 2,500 students, the press release said.
