A building spree by Arizona State University is doing more than benefitting the university community. The projects are also offering multiple benefits and contributions to the state’s economy. Among them is the more than 170,000-square-foot structure that will provide office, meeting, instructional, research and collaboration spaces and be the home of ASU’s new School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, part of the Fulton Schools. Planned for a fall 2025 opening, it will feature additive manufacturing labs, labs for robotics, smart manufacturing, industry automation, cyber manufacturing and operation research, as well as semiconductor manufacturing and manufacturing systems for the energy sector.