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Wednesday, August 20, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Campus construction booms
By Sally Streff Staff writer
Construction projects planned for the next several years and several completed during the summer on the KU campus represent what one University official called an unprecedented boom in construction.
"This is the most amount of construction that has ever started in one year on campus," said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
Plans include the construction of a $13.9 million science library, a $12 million human development center and a $7.23 million renovation of Snow Hall.
Wiechert said construction projects scheduled to start this academic year fitted into the University's long-term plan to locate academic buildings close to the center of campus and move research and support services to West Campus.
"The idea is to move things that aren't really part of day-to-day class activities over to West Campus," he said.
The boom in construction will increase the workload on the facilities operations department, which oversees the construction projects, and also will hamper travel on campus, Wiechert said.
Parking between Malott and Haworth halls will be partially blocked and walkways leading to the computer center may be re-rooted or closed, he said. Construction of the science library will block the service entrances behind Wescoc Hall.
Construction will begin first on the human development center.
Wiechert said work would start after bids were taken this fall and would be completed in two years. The four-story, 270,000-square-feet brick building will be connected to the east side of Haworth by a ground-level walkway
The center will combine the departments of human development and family life; special education; speech-language-hearing; science and disorders; radio-TV-film; the KU Bureau of Child Research; and the KU Gerontology Center in one building.
Those departments have been scattered in different buildings on and off campus, said Jim Sherman, chairman of human development and family life.
"This will allow us to bring together all our programs," he said. "It will promote interaction of faculty and graduate students, both with each other and across departments."
The construction of the building, which has not been named, was financed by a $9 million federal grant and $3 million in private donations.
To make room for the new building, the facilities operations buildings near Haworth will be down. Motor pool, maintenance, construction and grounds crews will move to a building on West Campus in October or November.
Renovation of Snow Hall will start in the spring, Wiechert said. The $7.23 million project, financed solely by state money, will take four years to complete because the Kansas Legislature appropriated the money in two parts last session.
The newer sections of Snow will be renovated in the first two years and
then opened while work is done on the older sections. Wiechert said.
After renovation, Snow will house the University's computer science and mathematics departments.
Construction on the $13.9 million, 92,000-square-foot science library will start after bids are received next spring, he said. The library, to be built on the slope behind Hoch Auditorium, is expected to open by fall of 1989.
Renovations also are planned on an old fraternity house, at 1120 W. 11th St., that the Endowment Association acquired in the 1970s. The yearlong project will cost $300,000 and will convert the building into a home for the Audio Reader Network.
In addition to future work, two scholarship halls were renovated extensively during the summer. Ceilings, counters, lighting and appliances all were replaced in bathrooms and kitchens in Miller and Watkins halls, said Ken Stoner, the director of student housing. Watkins also received a new roof and hot water system.
Student rooms in both halls were redecorated with new wallpaper and furniture. The original hardwood floors were restored, radiators were covered and new lights and outlets were installed.
The renovation, which cost about $489,000, was funded by a trust fund set up for the two halls and coincides with Watkins' 60th anniversary.
In addition to the renovation of Watkins and Miller, telephones were installed in students' rooms in all eight scholarship halls. Stoner said. Before, each hall had only three to four phones.
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