Senat Hall ready
for students;
building continues
Project Name: Senat Hall
Phase: Structure Complete. Additional
interior work and the completion of
Housing and Food Services offices are
still necessary. A foot path on the west
side of the building should be finished next
year.
Completion Date: Summer 2005
Type of Space: Residence Hall and Of
fices
Size: 56,700 sq. feet. A little more than
half the size of the Lilley/Kochel com
plex.
The facility will be home to 149 stu-
dents
Cost: Along with summer renovations to
Perry Hall, approximately $ll million.
Benefits: For the first time since Dr. Ken
Miller, Dean of Students, started in 1988,
there are only 11 students on the waiting
list for housing. “Nearly every student
who wanted housing go it,” said Miller.
What’s Next?: Housing and Food Ser
vices currently plans on expanding and
renovating Dobbins Hall next summer.
According to Miller, the expansion will
“capture the space Housing is leaving”
when its offices are moved down to Senat
Hall.
That space, as well as an expansion to
the rear of the building, will result in
the addition of another Bruno’s style a la
carte restaurant. Dobbins’ all-you-can
eat service will remain.
The renovated facility will serve the
students in housing, but it will also be
easily accessible by students, faculty and
staff in the REDC. The project is ex
pected to ease the lunch time rush at
Bruno’s.
Construction workers add a new room
to Perry Hall. Combined with the con
struction of Senat (right), new and im
proved residence halls cost $ll million.
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Above: Crews work on the first wall at the REDC construction sight, Thursday. The wall is
part of the facility’s lowest level. Below: An artist’s rendering of the REDC. The facility will
look something like this in Feb. 2006.
REDC construction in full swing
Project Name: Regional Economic Development Center (REDC)
Phase: Under Constuction. Crews have just begun work on the northeast wing
of the building. This section of the REDC will serve as the entrance to the first
of three levels.
Completion: The contract states that crews have 608 days to complete con
struction of the building, which puts the completion date at Feb. 1, 2006. Stu
dents are not expected to be in the building until summer 2006 at the earliest.
Type of Space: Academic, including classrooms, faculty offices and lab space.
Cost: $3O million provided by the state. The molney is the largest state fmanical
allocation the Erie region has ever recieved for a single project.
Benefits: John Ream, Director of Operations, could go on and on about the
potential benefits of the building. One thing is for sure; it’s going to provide
much needed space.
“We are very constrained,” said Ream, which means the construction of the
REDC will provide the business and engineering schools with more facilities for
lab work that is not possible in their current locations.
The addition of offices will allow the temporary trailers to be removed from
campus and allow the School of Science room for expansion in the abandoned
engineering buildings.
Also, the combination of the Sam and Irene School of Business and the School
of Engeneering and School of Engineering and Engineering Technologies pro
vides a unique hybrid program. That means, business people and engineers will
be able to learn how the two schools
are interwoven in the real world.
What’s Next: The relocation of the
engineering and business schools
leaves the Turnbull Building empty.
There are currently discussions as to
how to fill the building, anything
from psychology labs to a center for
the performing arts. John Ream,
however, said nothing is set as of yet
Workers in the Perry
Hall lobby rush to finish
the renovation job,
Wednesday. A newly
carpeted common area
is expected to be com
pleted by today, when
first-year students enter
their dorms.
Reed renovations
completed just in
time for fall
Project Name: Reed Union Building
Renovations
Phase: Complete
Completion date: Aug. 24, 2004
How long it took: 3 Months (May 2004-
Aug. 2004)
Type of Space: Student Activities and
Mailroom
Size: No new space was added. Renova
tions included the removal of the Back
Room recreational space for the expansion
of the mailroom and Beacon offices. Seven
club spaces we also added. The McGarvey
Commons also underwent major renova
tions that included retractable, permanent
curtains for the arched windows; carpet
ing; a removable dance floor; and improve
ments to room acoustics.
Cost: Approximately $260,000. The
project was anticipated to cost $280,000.
Benefits: “It will increase usage and ef
fect of office space in the Reed Union
Building,” said Chris Rizzo, Director of
Student Activities. He considers club and
their members to be “involvement incuba
tors” that serve the campus by running
projects and activities.
Rizzo was especially excited about the
renovations to the Commons. With im
proved acoustics, a dance floor and the re
tractable curtains, Rizzo said students now
have a “truly functional ballroom space.”
What’s next?: Rizzo said right now there
discussions, only discussions, of a larger
Reed Union Building. The demand for ad
ditional activity areas is still exceeding the
available space. “We’re trying to meet the
need right now,” said Rizzo of the just com
pleted Reed renovations.
A drywaller slaps plaster on the new
mailroom walls in July. The expanded
mailroom sits at the center of the new
club office loop that was built this past
summer.
Brand, spanking new
furniture is just one perk
to living in the newly
contructed Senat Hall.
Though residents only
have one person in the
same room, a common
area with selves joins
some rooms (not pic
tured).