BCWH and KSS designed a new General Academic Classroom Building for Virginia Commonwealth University. The project will provide a general classroom building which contains 102,000 gross square feet in a 4-story structure located on the Monroe Park Campus. This project will broaden VCU's portfolio of teaching facilities with a variety of large classroom sizes and configurations to serve the widest range of subjects and teaching approaches. The mix of classrooms includes one 400-seat lecture hall, one 200-seat tiered classroom, three 150-seat tiered classrooms, and five 80-seat tiered & flexible flat floor classrooms.

The stadium expansion on the University of Richmond campus will provide students, alumni, and fans with an exciting multi-sport venue that will serve the University's needs well into the future. The total stadium capacity of 9,000 will be divided into three seating sections: the West Grandstands, Seasonal end-zone, and the East Grandstands. Private boxes will cantilever over the main seating, adjacent to an indoor club entertainment as well.  

In addition to football, the stadium will support soccer, lacrosse, and track programs and will be able to host single game and tournament competition. Designed to enhance the "game-day experience" on campus, the stadium will naturally coexist with the present topography and surrounding vegetation. Aesthetically, the exterior facade will complement the collegiate gothic architecture of the University of Richmond and present a timeless presence on the campus.

The Master Plan Update, in Association with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas +Co, provided a comprehensive overview of the University's facilities and a flexible vision for the overall shape and pattern of future development.  It also provided guidance to the general character of development within the various campuses and within the districts of those campuses.  The master plan process identified areas of programmatic growth and change and recommended strategies to respond to the issues.  The update is based on the themes and concepts established in the 1996 Master Site Plan.  The updated plan also provides greater definition to the quality of the campus environments as they support the community of VCU, as well as greater definition to the desired external image of the university in the wider community of Richmond and the Commonwealth. The scope of the plan includes both the Academic and Medical College of Virginia campuses as well and Virginia Commonwealth University satellite facilities and programs.

In association with food service consultants, Porter Consulting, BCWH assisted the University of Richmond in the study phase and execution of the Heilman Center expansion.  The Heilman Center addition and renovation project transforms the Dining Center into a state-of-the-art food service production and dining facility for the University of Richmond Campus.  The project transforms the servery into an updated "marketplace" format with custom finishes including granite countertops, custom casework and a palette of wall finishes, porcelain tile flooring, ceiling elements and decorative lighting to create a mosaic of colors, patterns and textures, and a warm and inviting atmosphere that features the food.  

The new addition expands the kitchen and provides a new campus convenience store.  Administrative offices for Dining Services are consolidated along with a central Campus Post Office on the floor above the new kitchen.  The new addition provides approximately 12,600 SF on two new floors.  The existing entry lobby, kitchen and servery areas are approximately 15,000 SF of heavy renovation. 

The VCU Youth Center serves at-risk children through tennis instruction, literacy and leadership activities, life skills, and tutoring.  Its new facility provides administrative and student program functions with offices, classrooms, and two tennis courts. The building is two stories high, 2700 SF per floor, and is located at the south side of the site to allow for drop-off access from vans at the alley drive by the building's rear door. The tennis courts fronts Cary Street with entries through the building and courts, as well as at gates on the east and west sides.  BCWH designed to be sympathetic to the historic Cary Street Gymnasium. The courts and building have been sited to allow for decorative brick piers along the perimeter of the site and chamfered corners at the Cary Street side to aid pedestrian movement and visibility.

Virginia Commonwealth University will operate a Student Services Center in Harris Hall on the Monroe Park Campus, which will bring essential student services to one location on the campus. This center will be a convenient single point of contact for students to conduct business with the university. Services related to financial aid, registration, student accounting and cashiering will be addressed in the center. Implementation of a Student Services Center will enhance the delivery of services to students as well as other constituencies by improving service efficiency, customer service, coordination of service delivery and communication. BCWH was the Architect of Record. Baskervill assisted with conceptual space planning and furniture/finishes selection.

BCWH was hired to conduct an office space utilization study for faculty and staff offices in nine buildings on the campus, including assessing the adequacy of current office space; evaluating and improving, as necessary, student accessibility to offices; and planning for future growth.  BCWH, as part of an executive committee, defined the priorities for this study and designed a process of on-site space surveys, individual and departmental interviews, design options and development, and administrative review. The solutions lay out multiple options for implementation and outline sequence and phasing of small projects within an overall vision for the general organization of the developing campus. BCWH was required to meet an accelerated schedule for this study as requested by owner.  The planning effort schedule was five months in duration.

In 2004, Liberty University sought to expand its Lynchburg campus within the former General Electric plant, which occupies 113 acres adjacent the school's "Main Campus."  A feasibility study was executed and indicated that a 500 to 600 seat theatre could be developed within the 100 by 60 foot steel frame tower that stands over 80 feet tall. The BCWH  team was hired to explore how to implement this concept while remaining attentive to the production and presentation goals of the theatre department.  

Working within the existing volume, the architects and theatre consultants shaped a 550-seat hybrid-thrust proscenium theatre with an orchestra level of 370 seats and a wrap-around balcony level of 180 seats. The orchestra features a variable projection stage with several rows of removable seats and side boxes while the balcony features projecting side boxes and outstanding sight-lines. The technical gallery sits at the back of the balcony level in position to maintain the theatrical controls while the catwalk is left partially exposed as it leads back to the lighting platform. The volume of the fly tower consumes the entire volume of the existing building over the stage, and is equipped with state-of-the-art electric motorized rigging systems and theatrical lighting systems.

One of the most prominent views of any part of VCU's campuses is the side of the MCV Campus facing Interstate 95.  The campus presents a variety of structures along this elevation including hospitals, clinics, support buildings, mechanical equipment and parking decks.  There is also a variety of current and obsolete signage on the buildings creating a less than unified image and identity for the campus.  The Campus Edge project addressed the Campus' appearance through a program of new signage and current logos, large graphics, dramatic building lighting, landscaping and building/structural improvements.  The project was a collaborative effort of VCU leadership and staff members, Mitchell Associates, Higgins and Gerstenmaier and BCWH.   

 The MCV Campus Space Planning Study revealed the need for the development of an updated program for the VCU School of Pharmacy that would reflect evolving changes in the state-of-the-art for Pharmacy education, training and research.  Such a program would inform potential renovations of the existing School of Pharmacy and inform long-term planning for potential future facilities needs.  BCWH engaged Ellenzweig Architects as planning consultant for the process.  Working closely with the School and VCU Facilities Staff and the Office of the Vice-President for Health Sciences, the team developed a detailed space and functional program for the School's administration, faculty offices, classroom and teaching laboratories and research laboratories.

BCWH Architects and Ellenzweig are now renovating the existing School of Pharmacy in the Robert Blackwell-Smith Building to provide for the increased enrollment from 130 students per class to 150 students per class.