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44 September/October 2014 BizEd during brainstorming sessions, students can stand at any wall and write down suggestions on the whiteboards. The new Bloch building also includes the flat-and-flexible class- rooms enabled by manufacturers like Herman Miller and Steelcase, says Simmons. The rooms are set up around tables that seat approxi- mately eight students; each table includes a screen that can project images from students' laptops or the professor's controls. The instructor trading rooms, finance labs, and incubators, and a handful also are requesting design prototyping spaces that have more in common with design schools than business schools. For instance, the Ourso School's new building includes an "ideation lab," described by Tat- toni as "a room with a huge video wall and all the AV bells and whis- tles you could imagine." Similarly, the Bloch School's Design-Led Innovation Lab includes spaces for brainstorming, prototyp- FR E D STUCKE R Just in time for fall 2013 classes, Rutgers Business School opened its new $85 million building on its New Brunswick campus. It was the school's second major upgrade in five years: In 2009, the school opened a renovated building on its campus in Newark. The 143,000-square-foot building in New Brunswick includes more than two dozen teaching rooms, as well as ten meeting rooms equipped with video conferencing technology. Designed by Enrique Norten to look like a corporate head- quarters, the building includes a 60-foot atrium, a 440-seat auditorium, and space for 3,200 undergraduates. The building has qualified for LEED certifica- tion at the silver level from the U.S. Green Building Council. A 360-degree virtual tour of the exterior can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/mxkptzg. also can control and access moni- tors from a central lectern. Tables, chairs, and screens are all on casters for easy reconfiguring. While most schools want to install flexible classrooms, Tattoni warns that they don't scale well past 40 students in a room. "We generally suggest that schools use the flat flexible arrangement in smaller classes, and tiered rooms for larger ones," he says. Room to experiment. More schools are adding features like