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. The building designed by the architectural firm JSA was dedicated on September 5, 2002, and was the largest Pitt academic building constructed since 1978. The six-story, 248,000 gross-square-foot facility cost approximately $35 million and occupies a city block and is bounded by Sennott and Bouquet streets and Forbes and Oakland avenues. It combines classroom and office space with retail space on the ground floor facing Forbes and Oakland Avenues. The second floor of the building is dedicated to the College of Business Administration, Pitt’s undergraduate business college. Floors three and four are used by the Department of Psychology, while the fifth houses the

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's Department of Computer Science, the Intelligent Systems Program, and the School of Law's Civil Practice Clinic. The sixth floor houses the Computer Science department exclusively. The building has nine classrooms and two large seminar rooms, including a $400,000 Eli Lilly videoconferencing lab. The first floor is committed to retail space, currently including a

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and a Rue 21. The facility has 72 short-term parking spaces underground and 18 metered street-level parking space

From a foundation that incorporates more than one million pounds of reinforcing rods and 575 truckloads of concrete, Sennott Square rises six floors above street level to provide more than of functional space. The first floor contains nearly of retail shops with access from Forbes Avenue. On Sennott Street, two parklets with benches and ornamental shade trees provide places to rela

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032307/http://media.www.pittnews.com/media/storage/paper879/news/2002/09/06/News/Chancellor.Mayor.Others.Dedicate.Sennott.Square-1796102.shtml] The University of Pittsburgh's first building incorporating "green" construction techniques throughout, Sennott Square is environmentally friendly and energy efficient. All carpeting was made from recycled materials, and built-in recycling bins have been installed on every floor. In addition, the building employs computer-based lighting, temperature controls, and other systems to maximize energy efficienc

Sennot Square Parking Garage

References

Sennott Square tour

External links

* ttp://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour/sennott-square Sennott Square on Pitt's virtual Campus Tourbr>College of Business AdministrationDepartment of Computer ScienceDepartment of Psychology
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