PJ Dick Higher Ed - Mid-Atlantic

HIGHER EDUCATION

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Carnegie Mellon University

Tepper Quadrangle

A Better Building Experience

To remain competitive, colleges and universities are investing in campus improvements to enhance the student experience. Entrust your project to a contractor who will build safely, protect your budget, and require quality standards be met during each project phase.

As a top ranked Pennsylvania contractor that has managed over $12 billion in construction activity in the region, PJ Dick has successfully partnered with institutions of higher education across the Mid-Atlantic region. With offices in Pittsburgh, State College, and Philadelphia, we are able to serve institutions across the Commonwealth.

Whether you’re looking to refresh your existing facilities or build new ones, PJ Dick will provide you with best-in-class services to achieve your project’s vision.

80% of work from repeat clients

PJ Dick understands the needs of higher education and works with you to accomplish your vision.

Keys to Success

For over 40 years, we have partnered with higher education institutions to optimize project outcomes. PJ Dick’s proven processes foster collaboration and keep all stakeholders focused on achieving project goals.

A Safe Site

Our award-winning MY SAFETY program educates and empowers employees and trade partners to protect workers, trade partners, and campus occupants during construction.

Quality Installation

PJ Dick implements a systematic plan for quality assurance and quality control. When a project warrants this plan, PJ Dick utilizes a system based on the Army Corps of Engineers program, featuring three phases of control that is scalable based upon the project requirements. The program makes all team members more accountable throughout a project’s lifecycle — from the design team to our trade partners.

Accurate Estimating

PJ Dick’s 14-person team provides traditional estimating as well as Target Value Delivery services. Comprised of staff skilled in architectural, engineering, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, we work with the design team to verify the project meets project goals, is constructible, and meets the college’s or university’s budget.

Streamlined Construction

Our team of managers and craftspeople are very “hands on” and dive into every detail of a project. Our staff considers itself an extension of your organization and strives to optimize the project outcome in your best interest, every time. All of our efforts are focused on delivering a quality project, on time and within budget. We actively flush out risks and mitigate them early, before they can have a negative impact on the project. We strive to minimize change orders by properly scoping, descoping, scheduling, and coordinating the work.

Sustainable Building

Ranked among Engineering News-Record’s Top 100 Green Contractors, PJ Dick has built or is building 65+ LEED projects, including one Living Building Challenge project. Regardless of project complexity or type, PJ Dick will work with the design team, trade partners, and suppliers to verify all construction is built to the required specifications and will ensure that the owner gets the best bang for the buck — most points for lowest investment.

Innovative Technology

PJ Dick uses technology to enhance estimating, preplanning, construction management, and stakeholder engagement. Examples include:

• BIM 360: Clash detection; real-time data access

• Oculus: Verify room layout before building

• LiDAR: Laser scanning to verify as-built drawings

• HoloBuilder: Documentation of existing conditions

What We Do

Capital projects are major investments, and PJ Dick works on your behalf to protect your budget and schedule throughout the project’s lifecycle.

As campuses evolve to reflect innovations in technology and student life, academic institutions turn to PJ Dick to help plan and build adaptable facilities.

Our portfolio encompasses all facets of campus life — student living, laboratories, classrooms, arenas, theaters, administrative facilities, central utility plants, etc. We can do it all.

Academic Buildings

Residential Living

Sports / Public Venues

STEM Facilities

Libraries

Dining Centers

Student Centers

Performance

Arts Facilities

West Virginia University

Agricultural Sciences Building

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHUYLKILL HAVEN , PA

Penn State UniversitySchuylkill Classroom

Building Lab Renovation

$2.6 million | 4,000 sf

PJ Dick provided general contracting services for renovations of the physics, organic and general chemistry, and radiological sciences classroom and laboratory spaces.

Renovations included finish upgrades along with spatial reconfiguration and include new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and sprinkler systems for the lab spaces. Project scope also included new casework and fume hoods in the chemistry lab renovation.

Georgian Court University Student Center

GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY LAKEWOOD, NJ

Student Center

$48 million | 65,000 sf

Nursing & Health Sciences Building

$48 million | 58,000 sf

PJ Dick was selected to construct a new facility that will house nursing skills labs, simulation labs, science labs, computer labs, general academic classrooms, collaboration spaces, as well as faculty and administrative offices.

PJ Dick was selected to renew the existing Casino Building’s systems and transform the interiors into a new space to support student life and campus dining.

Georgian Court University

Nursing and Sciences Building

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCRANTON , PA

Library Classroom Building

Renovation and Addition

$9.2 million | 22,800 sf

PJ Dick is managing the renovation of a two-story, 20,800-sf building to consolidate libraries to the first floor and renovate 10,400 sf on the ground floor for the School of Nursing. The University is also planning an 2,000-sf addition for mechanical space and a lobby.

The project includes spatial reconfigurations, finish upgrades, window replacement, installation of a sprinkler system, and renewed building mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

Library Classroom

WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES MEDIA, PA

Howley Hall

$7 million | 72 beds

PJ Dick is managing construction of a new 22,000-sf, three-story dormitory for Williamson College of the Trades. The Howley Dormitory will blend in with the original dorms designed by the famous Victorian-era architect Frank Furness. Each of the three levels will have a dozen double-capacity rooms, a shared hall bathroom, a lounge, and an apartment for a dormitory manager.

St. Rita’s Hall

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY VILLANOVA, PA

St. Rita’s Hall

$7.4 million | 17,000 sf

Jake Nevin Field House Roof Replacement

$738,000

Moriarty Hall Restroom Renovations

$570,000

PJ Dick managed the renovation of an existing 17,000 sf, fourstory stone masonry building to be used as an interfaith hub housing the office of Campus Mission and Ministry and the construction of additions containing stairs and elevators. Subsequently we were retained to perform the replacement of the fieldhouse roof and renovations to restrooms in a three-story dormitory.

St. Rita’s Hall

St. Rita’s Hall

Kapelski Learning Center

WIDENER UNIVERSITY CHESTER, PA

Quick Business Center

$800,000 Kapelski Learning Center

$2 million Student Resident Halls (Kapelski, Sharples, Moll)

$1.4 million

PJ Dick assisted Widener University with multiple summer projects in 2023. These interior renovations included:

• Quick Business Center

• Kapelski Learning Center

• Student Residence Halls

• Kapelski

• Sharples

• Moll

Kapelski Learning Center

Sharples Residence Hall

Agricultural Sciences Building

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY MORGANTOWN , WV

Over the past decade, PJ Dick has enjoyed working with WVU on a variety of projects, including the current College of Business and Economics Building project. Our firm understands the university’s culture and needs in terms of preconstruction services and project delivery.

Reynolds Hall - School of Business

$82 million | 178,000 sf

Milan Puskar Stadium Renovations

$35 million | 75,000 sf addition, 200,000 sf renovation

Agricultural Sciences Building

$76.8 million | 201,000 sf

Student Health and CPASS Building

$25.5 million | 115,000 sf

Agricultural Sciences Building

Milan Puskar Stadium

School of Pharmacy

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY HUNTINGTON , WV

PJ Dick has partnered with Marshall University on two projects. PJ Dick completed a new school of pharmacy academic building and a graduate student housing complex in 2019, and the university’s new school of business opened to students for the spring 2024 semester.

Brad D. Smith Center for Business and Innovation

$43.8 million | 77,000 sf

School of Pharmacy and Graduate Student Housing

$43.8 million | 108,432-sf housing, 49,559-sf academic building

Graduate Student Housing

Brad D. Smith Center

GROVE CITY COLLEGE GR OVE CITY , PA

Partnering with the college and design team, PJ Dick built a new STEM facility that modernized the student learning experience. The project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

New Science and Engineering Building

$30 million | 72,000 sf

Susan Boyle Health Science & Technology Center

S ETON H ILL U NIVERSITY GREENSBURG, PA

Over the past five years, PJ Dick has built several projects for Seton Hill University. These investments have enhanced the student experience, from learning in modern classrooms and studios to enjoying new common areas that bring people together.

Sisters of Charity Residence Hall

$10.5 million | 36,000 sf

Lowe Dining Hall

$8 million

7,000 sf addition | 17,340 renovation

Sisters of Charity Residence

Dance & Visual Arts Center

$12 million | 46,000 sf

Susan Boyle Health Science & Technology Center

$19.7 million | 112,000 sf

Hall

Dance and Visual Arts Center

Posvar Hall

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH , PA

Through our 20-year history working with the University of Pittsburgh on renovation and new construction projects, PJ Dick has established mutual respect and a strong relationship with Pitt’s staff and facilities department.

GSPH Parran Hall

$33.2 million | 59,000-sf addition 11,000-sf renovation

Olympic Sports Complex

$31 million | 24,000 sf

Scaife Hall Addition and Renovation

$82 million | 160,000 sf

Salk Hall Addition and Renovation

$31.8 million | 80,000 sf

Posvar Hall

$11.5 million | 51,000 sf

Nordenberg Hall

$59 million | 200,000 sf

Benedum Hall

Parran Hall Scaife Hall

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY PITTSBURGH , PA

Over the past 25+ years, PJ Dick has built over a dozen projects with Carnegie Mellon University.

Tepper Quadrangle School of Business

$155 million | 295,000 sf

Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center

$26.6 million

265,000 sf building | 250-vehicle integral garage

Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies

$84.2 million | 200,000 sf

Doherty Hall Additions and Renovations

$20 million

50,000 sf addition | 40,000 sf renovation

Graduate School of Industrial Administration / Posner Academic Backfill

$33 million | 165,000 sf

Scaife Hall

$53 million | 85,000 sf

Tepper Quadrangle School of Business

Gates Center for Computer Science

POINT PARK UNIVERSITY PITTSBURGH , PA

When Point Park began planning its new performance theater, the university engaged PJ Dick to work with the design team to perform extensive preconstruction planning. Once estimating aligned with funding, PJ Dick built a state-of-the-art theater that required impeccable craftsmanship. The new building has received numerous industry awards.

Pittsburgh Playhouse

Performing Arts Center

$50 million | 92,000 sf

ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY CORAOPOLIS , PA

Because of the success building the new School of Business, RMU selected PJ Dick to build its new student housing facility. Subsequently, PJ Dick constructed the UPMC Events Center on campus, a project that will host the university’s NCAA Division I basketball team while serving as a public venue.

School of Business and President’s Office

$ 6.2 million | 17,868 sf

Concord III Student Housing

$11.5 million | 76,000 sf

UPMC Events Center

$50 million | 180,000 sf arena

11,000 sf conference space

Recital Hall

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY STATE COLLEGE , PA

PJ Dick has a long-standing relationship with The Pennsylvania State University that spans more than 20 years.

Music Building Renovation and Recital Hall Addition

$20 million |14,000 sf

Willard Building Renovation

$37 million | 60,000 sf

Panzer Stadium

$7.6 million | 1,300-seat stadium

Moore Building

$19.5 million | 57,000 sf

Burrowes Building Renovation

$30.5 million | 49,600 sf

Panzer Stadium Burrowes Building

Penn State University

Morgan Academic Center

Our Clients Said

ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY

Because of the success of the School of Business, RMU retained PJ Dick for preconstruction and construction services for a new sixstory student housing building. Again PJ Dick delivered a high quality project on an aggressive schedule and considerably under budget.

It is my sincere belief that whatever building you may be contemplating, PJ Dick’s expertise and team approach will prove to be an asset to you and your project’s success.

MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE

PJ Dick and their team, from owner to management to project team to admin, is second to none in construction management. Their commitment never ceased and they are a big reason this project came in under budget and on schedule.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

PJ Dick provided superior construction management; it came in under budget and on schedule for a fall semester move-in. Your knowledge of construction techniques and can-do attitude gave us a sense of comfort in knowing this would be a successful project.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

PJ Dick has been involved in numerous highprofile, high-value, tight-timeframe projects for the University. Their ability to build a good team, follow through on issues, and overall positive attitude have made all of these projects highly successful.

The PJ Dick team’s construction knowledge and problem-solving skills are top-notch, but a large part of the work at the University is building relationships with our users - and PJ Dick excels at this.

SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Our two projects were underway at the same time, each with its own architect and separate PJ Dick project managers and construction teams, so you can imagine that the planning and execution of these two major construction projects was challenging. However, the PJ Dick teams worked with Seton Hill University in a collaborative, transparent manner to deliver both projects on time and on budget.

PJ Dick has proven to be a wonderful partner for Seton Hill; they understand the needs of higher education and they work with you to accomplish your vision for your college or university.

It is my sincere belief that whatever building you may be contemplating, PJ Dick’s expertise and team approach will prove to be an asset to you and your project’s success.

Contact

Patrick Paro Business Development Manager

Email: patrick.paro@pjdick.com

Contacts: 484.431.0135

Gary Heinerichs Vice President Regional Manager

Email: gary.heinerichs@pjdick.com

Contacts: 484.872.2000

Locations

PHILADELPHIA

1161

Phone: 484.872.2000

www.pjdick.com