The Science 1 Research Center is three-story, high-intensity academic research building dedicated to the interdisciplinary fields of material science and engineering. Home to the Institute of Materials Science, the signature building will be the centerpiece of the University of Connecticut’s new Northwest Science Quad science district, a 22-acre development that transforms a hillside parking lot into a high-performance landscape of green infrastructure. A new parking lot, campus utility tunnel extension and supplemental utility plant (planning by Payette/design by others) complete the development.