The budget appropriation will be used to construct a Center for Advanced Environmental Technology, a 37,000-sf laboratory dedicated to the development and design of remote sensing and real-time monitoring technologies, state officials said. The concept for this facility was prepared by a team of scientific advisors headed by Dr. Arthur Sanderson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and will be designed as an advanced green building.
The governor originally proposed the development of center in his 2000 State of the State Address. On Earth Day in 2003, he announced the selection of the Beacon as its future home. Construction has begun, with the first facility--Building One--expected to be completed by the fall of this year. Building One will be constructed within the footprint of a former brickworks factory site and will rehabilitate the largest of the brick building shells remaining. The restored facility will be approximately 4,000 sf, and will include an environmental interpretive facility, state officials noted.
The entire center will be constructed on 64 acres at Denning's Point at the Beacon waterfront. Two satellite facilities, part of the Hudson Riverscope Project, are being developed. One is a research facility to be operated by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy and the other is a research facility to be operated by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
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