Every sustainability decision in a 535-bed hall becomes a primary source. The LEED scorecard is the syllabus, and each credit category opens onto a different program.
Illustrative target, shown to demonstrate the format. Real credit totals are set during design with FGCU.
An overview of the building behind the curriculum: its scale, its illustrative LEED standing, and which college plugs into which credit.
While the building goes up, the platform is a working project record. When it is finished, the educational layer is handed to FGCU faculty as an open teaching archive. The sensitive half never leaves the build.
Design choices, material submittals, and progress are logged during construction. Detailed drawings, structural layouts, and security data stay internal and exempt from public release.
Concept-level explanations, approved photos, and the reasoning behind each system are pulled into a public layer. FGCU reviews what qualifies as educational before anything is published.
On completion, the educational archive transfers to FGCU. Faculty across programs use it, extend it, and add the next campus project beside this one.
The proposed path from contract to handover, from the design Notice to Proceed in late 2026 to Final Completion in spring 2029. Each milestone is a moment the platform captures another chapter of the build.
The team is on the clock and the project record opens. Protected drawings begin flowing into the internal layer right away.
Massing for the six-story, 535-bed hall is set, sited next to Eagle and Osprey Halls.
Building systems, the envelope, and the LEED Silver pathways are resolved into a buildable scheme.
The guaranteed maximum price and a guaranteed completion date are locked in by amendment. This is the point where cost certainty arrives.
GMP lockedWith the building permit secured, sitework, drainage, and foundations begin on the SoVi site.
Auger-cast piles and foundations give way to a precast frame that erects fast, then glazing and roofing bring the hall weather-tight by fall 2028.
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, finishes, and the 535 beds take shape inside the dry shell.
Substantial Completion lands in April 2029, comfortably ahead of the fall move-in, and Final Completion follows in May. Final Completion starts the warranty, and the educational archive transfers to FGCU.
A condensed Gantt view of the same calendar the project record follows, from contract to handover. Each bar is a major work stream and each diamond is a milestone the platform captures.
Tap any bar for its dates and critical-path status. The critical path shown is the illustrative driving chain. Durations are calendar-day spans that match each bar, not P6 working-day values. A demonstration roll-up of the detailed proposal schedule.
LEED awards points across nine categories. Each one is also a question students can investigate with real evidence from this building. Open a category to see a sample lesson and the programs it feeds.
The same building, four credits pushed harder: deeper water savings, more energy and resilience measures, lower-impact materials, and cleaner indoor air. That carries the hall from 54 to 60, across the Gold line.
These follow FGCU's actual colleges and schools, not a short list of favorites. A building this complex holds a question for engineering and business, but also for education, health, and the arts. Tap any college to open its way in.
Seven colleges shown. The platform is built to add more angles as faculty bring them, and to add the next campus project beside this one.
The educational layer is built to be public from the start. Anything that Florida law treats as confidential about a public building stays out of it.