Tangen Hall's official address is 115 S 40th Street, Philadelphia PA, 19104. The building's main entrance is on 40th Street, between Sansom and Chestnut Street.

Business hours are 7am-9pm from Monday to Friday.

After hours are 9pm-2am from Monday to Friday and 7am-2am on Saturday and Sunday.

Access to Tangen Hall is subject to the COVID-19 operations policies set forth by the University of Pennsylvania.

Tangen is a "student entrepreneurship first" building and priority access is given to all Penn students, pending their successful application for a Venture Lab membership and compliance with all University COVID-19 measures.

For Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, building access is controlled for safety and operations reasons:

• Tangen is located off-campus
• Studios and labs require training and supervision in order to use the equipment. Noncompliance with government regulations can result in the loss of ability to operate spaces like the Food Innovation Lab.

As building operations ramp up, we will determine when and how to increase building access for Summer 2022.

The Venture Lab membership program is for all currently enrolled Penn students with a valid PennKey. Apply here.

When approved, your Venture Lab membership benefits include:

• Access to Tangen Hall on weekdays from 8 AM to 7 PM ET, excluding holidays and during suspension of normal operations by Penn (subject to change)
• Access to the Spaces app to reserve rooms available to Venture Lab members in Tangen Hall on Floors 1 through 3
• Access to the Canvas site for the Studios and Labs
• Invitation to the Venture Lab Slack community
• Enrollment in the Venture Lab Weekly Newsletter

Venture Lab Membership benefits are processed within 3 days of application submission, excluding building access and room reservation. Building access to Tangen Hall and the ability to reserve rooms are processed on the 15th and 30th of each month and access is granted within 2 business days.

Tangen Hall houses Venture Lab which is a partnership by the Wharton School, Penn Engineering, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design to consolidate Penn’s startup ecosystem and to provide experiential learning to all Penn students.

Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance, and Wharton Computing and Information Technology.

Indoor eating can only take place in within the Colloquium from 11:30am to 1pm ET or inside closed offices. Eating is prohibited in all classrooms, conference rooms, team rooms, and public spaces, although drinking with a straw under your mask is acceptable.

There are other designated eating zones at Wharton.

Following University guidance, it is also recommended that pre-packaged meals (rather than buffets or open serve options) be utilized where possible when food is being provided.

For Fall 2021, during business hours, Floors 1 to 4 are accessible to all visitors inside Tangen. Unrestricted spaces include:

• Lobby (Room 100)
• Retail Lab (Room 107)
• Colloquium (Room 204)
• Ideas Forum (Rooms 402 and 410)

Team rooms on floors 2, 3, and 4 are reservable but may be used by any students during time slots when they are unreserved.

After hours, only Floors 1 and 4 are accessible.

Small group meeting rooms are available on Venture Lab floors 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and are reservable through the Wharton Spaces system.  The ability to book rooms is granted automatically in Spaces to the following groups:

• During business hours, students successfully enrolled in the Venture Lab membership program may reserve the following rooms: 101, 203, 213, 323, 325, 336, 338, and 340
• During all building open hours (business + after hours), students who are accepted into select Venture Lab programs may reserve the following video-conferencing rooms: 316, 318, 320, 702B, and 702C. These programs include VIP-X, Startup Challenge Award Winners, Summer Venture Award recipients, Innovation Fund (Investment Team only), Snider Consulting, and Weiss Student Directors

Venture Lab owns and operates the following innovation spaces as a collaboration between the Wharton School and Penn Engineering:

• Engineering Studios (Rooms 108, 109, 113, 401, 416)
• Retail Lab (Room 107)
• Food Lab (Room 228) 
• Digital Design Studio (Room 404) 
• Digital Media Lab (Room 422)

Upon successful enrollment into Venture Lab’s membership program, Penn students will receive access to the Studios Canvas site, where they can apply to any and all of the innovation spaces to use their equipment and participate in their programming.  Except for the Retail Lab, all of these spaces require successful completion of space-specific training.

Questions or issues with booking these spaces may be directed to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

For Fall 2021, Tangen event spaces like the Colloquium, Active Learning Rooms, and the Summit are not available for public reservation due to limited resources and scaling of building operations.  More information will be available in Spring 2021.

The Tangen security desk is located in the first floor lobby and can be reached at 215-898-2811.

For emergencies, call the University line at 215-573-3333 or 511 from any campus phone.

Official Penn Public Safety emergency procedures for Tangen Hall are located here. Additional helpful tips from Wharton Operations are here.

The Penn Division of Public Safety provides walking escorts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for more information on this program please visit their website.  To request a walking escort call 215-898-WALK.

Penn Transit Services offers a variety of shuttle service options for the Penn community including an on-call shuttle service.  Please visit their website to learn about shuttle and bus service options that are available to you.  To request an on-call shuttle call  215-898-RIDE.

Only Penn students, faculty, and staff who are approved to access Tangen will have the ability to swipe into the building with their PennCards.  See above instructions to request access.

If you have been granted PennCard access to Tangen and your PennCard does not work, please email tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu with your PennID, failed swipe access point (e.g., main entrance, elevator to 7th floor, etc) and date/time of failed swipe.

All members of the Penn community and guests can connect any device wirelessly through the University's AirPennNet system. Instructions are here.

All Tangen room are set up for self service and instructions for using room equipment are printed and visible.  Tangen is not a Penn-designated academic building and does not have immediate, onsite tech support.  Questions can be submitted to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

Facility issues and maintenance requests may be submitted to the Tangen front desk staff or emailed to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

Tangen staff can work with their department's administrative point of contact to submit issues through JLL's 360 Facility portal.