IKM Incorporated was commissioned to design the new $36 million Penn State Food Science Building to allow the University’s College of Agricultural Sciences to remain current with researchers in the food science departments in the Big Ten Conference and the Northeast. This unique building combines manufacturing, retail sales, academic teaching and research under a single roof. The goal of the project is to provide new facilities for pilot-scale food processing and manufacturing, food safety research programs, a microbial food safety pilot area, a commercial scale creamery and twenty-two dedicated and joint-use research laboratories to support research and teaching programs in food science.