Without a doubt, summer brought the heat to Vegas. It also brought a shine to UNLV’s newest, and nearly complete, addition: the Advanced Engineering Building.
“This is the time when the building really comes alive,” said Patrick Castellano, director of design and associate university architect. “This is where it gets its personality. You can see the finishes, you can see the design, you can see the vision.”
The vision is a 13-year dream-in-the-making for UNLV College of Engineering Dean Rama Venkat, who, from his office just next door in the Beam Engineering Complex, has arguably the closest seat in the house to see the building take shape in a slow-motion – or, depending on how you look at it – fast-motion timelapse.
“The last 18 months have been amazing,” he said. “The speed with which the construction has happened is simply remarkable. Every time I’ve had…
