ET214 – Hopper Hall Cyber Center: Advancing the U.S. Navy's Future
Additional fee, registration required.
Experience the U.S. Naval Academy's (USNA) main campus, a National Historic Landmark located in downtown Annapolis.
You'll witness how Hopper Hall—built almost 50 years after the USNA last erected a building on its historic campus—transforms the academic experience for midshipmen with a facility designed specifically for cyber studies. You'll also learn about the woman behind the building's name, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in computer science who is the first woman to have an academic building named after her at a major U.S. service academy.
This is a bus tour.
Experience the U.S. Naval Academy's (USNA) main campus, a National Historic Landmark located in downtown Annapolis.
You'll witness how Hopper Hall—built almost 50 years after the USNA last erected a building on its historic campus—transforms the academic experience for midshipmen with a facility designed specifically for cyber studies. You'll also learn about the woman behind the building's name, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in computer science who is the first woman to have an academic building named after her at a major U.S. service academy.
This is a bus tour.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how the architect proposed, designed, and executed a grand wellness space for midshipmen that was not included in the original program or budget.
- Hear the design team and contractor's strategies to manage the inherent risks associated with building on land reclaimed from the Severn River.
- Learn how a collaboration with the construction contractor, federal contracting agency, and end-user, met evolving program needs within a federal firm-fixed-price design-build contract model.
- Study the ways in which the building's resilient design fits in the greater context of USNA's Military Resilience Plan.
- Peter Glasson, AIA
Principal - SOM - Scott Phillips, AIA, AIA, PMP
Associate Principal - Project Manager - SOM