University of Portland, Dundon-Berchtold Hall

Fortis collaborated with nationally renowned design architect Robert A.M. Stern Architects and local architect Soderstrom to deliver the $34M Dundon-Berchtold Hall, which created the first new academic space on campus in more than 25 years. Containing 17 new classrooms, faculty offices, an auditorium, student-lounge spaces, conference rooms, and student support spaces, the signature new building provides for UP highly modernized teaching and learning spaces on the interior with a collegiate Gothic expression that blends with the historic look of campus on the exterior. Also, Fortis utilized a highly coordinated BIM model so that the stones forming the classical exterior could be shaped off site and then delivered to be put right into place similar to a Lego set.