Mill19A – CMU ARM

As part of an agreement between Carnegie Mellon and the nonprofit Regional Industrial Development Corporation, the university has agreed to a lease for two floors, or approximately two-thirds, of a new 94,000-square-foot building. The new building will be constructed entirely within the enormous skeleton of the historic steel mill known as Mill 19, located on the Hazelwood Green development site.

The cutting-edge facility constructed by Jendoco Construction will house research, development and office space for the nonprofit Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM), a $250-million public-private collaborative catalyzed by CMU that puts new technologies to work for industry, and for CMU’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative (MFI), an interdisciplinary research initiative. A $20 million gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation helped launch the MFI, providing significant support for research and for CMU’s new facility at Mill 19.

The new facility will bring to life the 178-acre Hazelwood Green development, transforming the enormous riverfront site that once housed the historic Jones & Laughlin Steel Hazelwood Works. As home to a new, one-of-a-kind advanced manufacturing hub, bringing together large-scale academic research and corporate development under one roof, the former monument to industrial strength holds the potential to once again put the United States at the forefront of a new industrial economy.

Jendoco was engaged by CMU to be their Construction partner once they realized the complexity of the coordination and intense amount of community engagement required.