Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is the only private, science and technology-focused comprehensive university located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Academic Center includes a 16-story mixed-use high-rise structure with primary functions that include; 2 levels of retail/office, 7 levels of parking, 5 levels of shell office/institutional learning and a mechanical penthouse level. The typical floor-to-floor dimension is 10-feet at the parking levels, and 14-feet at the institutional and mechanical levels. The foundations utilized drilled concrete caissons with bedrock sockets. Since the new building columns are adjacent to an existing building, cantilevered concrete grade beams were required to transfer the column loads to within the building footprint. To accelerate the construction schedule, a steel-framed structure was selected over similar type concrete systems. Unshored composite steel beams and girders with concrete slabs on composite galvanized steel deck were specified for the institutional, mechanical and retail floors. Unshored composite steel beams and girders on 6” formed reinforced concrete slabs (no permanent deck forms) were specified at the parking levels. Steel braced frames were specified as the lateral bracing system for the structure due to their cost effectiveness, plus minimizing drift due to external lateral forces.