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work to begin in June
The long-anticipated completion of Herman N. Hipp Hall is just months away.
The departments of Education and Economics and Business Administration as well as the Rushing Center for Advanced Technology, Continuing Education and Graduate Studies will move to the new 38,000-square-foot building during August.
But don't get accustomed to not seeing earth-moving equipment and red dirt in the area.
Yet another construction fence will soon be erected just a few feet from the Hipp Hall site. Work on the James B. Duke Library is scheduled to begin June 3, just two days after Commencement.
Mary Pat Crozier, capital construction manager, says Phase I of the library project includes the construction of a 60,900-square-foot addition on the lake side of the building. The library will close for approximately three weeks next summer to move books, office equipment and furniture into the new addition. After the first phase is complete, renovation of the original structure will begin.
According to Crozier, the entire project will be completed by fall 2004. Assuming everything proceeds according to schedule, Marketing and Public Relations, currently located in the basement of the library, will move to the west wing of Montague Village in late May. Public Safety, Administrative Services, and Computing and Information Services will also be relocated to Montague, but a timetable for those moves has not been determined.
In other construction-related news, Crozier says:
o The area of Furman Hall vacated by Education, EBA, Continuing Education and Graduate Studies will remain unoccupied until renovations begin on the building. Work on Furman Hall is scheduled to start in early 2004 and will be completed, in phases, by early 2006.
o Faculty displaced by the Furman Hall project will be housed temporarily in the basement of Earle Infirmary. The basement, former home of Admissions and Financial Aid, is currently unoccupied.
o Old Varsity Field, former home of the women's softball team, is being converted to a recreation field, which should be ready for use in the fall.
o Work on the new Central Plant, located adjacent to Facilities Services, is almost complete. Cooling systems throughout campus will be controlled from this facility beginning in the spring.
o A permanent stage cover will be installed at the amphitheater early this summer. The project should be completed by July 1.