Two Case Studies in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction: The First National Bank Tower in Omaha, and the Durham Research Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha

This paper is about a series of three Case Studies done primarily by 5^th and 6^th year students of architectural design at UNL under the auspices of the AIA Case Studies Initiative. The first (First National Bank of Omaha) was completed in the summer of 2004 and was successfully submitted and selected as one of only seven case studies on the national AIA web page (www.aia.org/ed_case studies). A second Case Study was completed (Durham Research Center at UNMC, Omaha) in the summer of 2005, and has been submitted to the AIA Case Studies Initiative. We are awaiting notification if it has been selected for inclusion on the national web page. A third Case Study beginning this spring 2006 will study the Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering at UNO, Omaha. This paper discusses the highlights of these two completed Case Studies from the perspective of the faculty, the students and the large firms themselves, and discusses lessons learned and preparations for the third Case Study in the spring semester 2006, to be submitted in the summer as well.