Set across 88 acres of the West Des Moines Innovation Corridor, Des Moines University’s ground-up campus establishes a premier destination for students, faculty, staff, and friends of the university. The Des Moines University project will include four buildings with various programs including: academic, office, student support services, recreation and operations support services buildings. The building square footage will total approximately 350,000 GSF in the Phase One construction.

The architect designed the walls to extend from finished floor to deck to meet a high acoustical sound rating to prevent disruptive noises from one classroom to another while maximizing the space for each room. This was accomplished by the wall type and, in some rooms, aided by the specialty items that would be fixed to the wall such as acoustical wall panels. Ceilings were designed to aid in the prevention of the acoustical leakage while providing ease of access to service MEP, if required, that is running above the ceiling and providing different visuals.