The project assists the University in asserting itself as an academic and research leader in Georgia, the southeast and the world.

Georgia State’s Parker H. Petit Science Teaching and Research Laboratory is the next step in the University’s maturity as a world-class research and teaching institution. The project is the eastern gateway to this urban campus. This building is divided into research and teaching labs designed to attract and retain instructors and students. Labs serve multiple departments and schools within. The faculty and graduate student workspaces are configured to foster collaboration among biology, chemistry, neuroscience and public health specialists. The labs themselves are configured in a highly efficient block, organized in sections to provide the maximum efficiency in building systems for a rare “high-rise” laboratory project. Street frontage is provided for the labs to fulfill the University’s stated aim of “putting science on display.” The project has been greeted enthusiastically by Georgia State University departments which have previously existed in improvised spaces elsewhere in downtown Atlanta. The project assists the University in asserting itself as an academic and research leader in Georgia, the southeast and the world. This project was recorded by McGraw Hill’s Southern Construction Magazine as “Best Higher Education Project of the Year.”