Fact Sheet

• At the peak of construction, approximately 700 tradespeople were working on the construction site at one time.
• The building contains 33 classrooms, varying in size from small 12-15 seat rooms to a 300-seat auditorium. There are 161 faculty offices.
• There are a total of 153 labs in the building -- 75 for teaching, 78 for research.
• Inside the labs are a total of 260 vent hoods designed to remove fumes and harmful gases. If all of them were lined up end-to-end, they would stretch from the Sciences Building to the Waco Suspension Bridge.
• It took 120 loaded trucks to transport all of the lab fixtures installed in the building to Waco.
• There are 22 large air conditioning units in the building, which change the air 45 times each hour. Enough air is pumped through the system every 15 minutes to fill the Goodyear blimp.
• The original plans for the building called for a basement, but after a devastating storm flooded the basements of downtown Houston buildings in 2001, designers instead decided to add a large fifth floor "penthouse" where electrical, plumbing and air conditioning equipment is located.
• Wireless Internet access is not only available in all 508,000 square feet of building space, but in the 75,000-square-foot plaza and in other outdoor areas surrounding the building.
• The pawns used on the outdoor chessboard are 34 inches tall, while the kings measure 44 inches.
• The height of the water in the two outdoor fountains is regulated by a wind sensor mounted on top of the SLC. During calm periods the fountains are at full strength, but when winds increase significantly the fountain height drops and eventually water flow will shut off altogether.
• A Bible verse is inscribed above the columns across the building's east side: "By Him all things are made; in Him all things are held together." (Col. 1: 16-17).
• About 80,000 square feet of the building has been left empty for future expansion needs.
• It's estimated that the normal building population will be 1,000 students each hour, with as many as 5,000 students at one time possible during a "peak load" period.
• At the projects completion, over 33,000 yards of concrete will have been placed ... enough to pave a sidewalk from Waco to Austin
• Research labs, classrooms, and offices will utilize roughly 815,000 sf of sheetrock ... enough to cover Floyd Casey field 15 times
• The Science Building elevations reflect roughly a 1,000,000 modular face bricks
• Because of the extensive number of teaching/research labs and associated fume hoods, the Science Building incorporates a sophisticated exhaust system that insures safe exhaust and fresh air exchange ... 438,000 cubic feet per minute of lab exhaust air can be generated ... a quantity that would fill the Goodyear blimp once every 30 seconds
• The building controls for the Sciences Building have more monitoring and controls points than the entire rest of the campus combined
• The Baylor Sciences Building will touch virtually every student at the university, as 97% of all undergraduate students take one or more science courses at Baylor.