Construction Plan

by Staci J. Sessler

College officials are making plans to upgrade the campus extensively in the next eight years, including major remodeling and a new building, totalling about $23 million.

All of the work has been divided into short-term (one to two years), intermediate (three to eight years), and long-term plans as part of the Master Plan.

The plans also include the renovations needed to comply with fire and life safety codes which were not required when the buildings were constructed but are now necessary.

According to Larry Rousey, Director of Facilities, the manufacturing robots and equipment will be moved from the lower level of D building to the east campus in order to create a "staging area for all project work."

This architect's drawing shows proposed additions
to the campus in blue. The Campus and Technology
Center would enclose the Cultural Centre and the
addition to the life science lab and library would adjoin buildings A and C.

"We anticipate it could start in July this year, with the move of the manufacturing area to the east campus," Rousey said.

The air system in buildings A, B, and C will be worked on, including relocating air chases and removing asbestos prior to construction. Rousey also said that some of the seminar rooms will be converted to offices or work areas and that walls and doors will be added for privacy and security.

This project will also include replacement of the shingled roofs, which have lived their life span, with a standing seam metal roofing to match that on buildings D, E and gym.

"This will eliminate the replacement of shingles and leaking that happens in each storm that hits the college and surrounding area," Rousey said.

Intermediate plans include a new Campus and Technology Center being built that will wrap around the Cultural Centre. This plan will be submitted for state funding by June 1, 1999, according to Rousey. Seventy-five percent of the funding will come from the state, the other 25 percent IVCC has to provide.

Dr. Jean Goodnow, college president, said, "At present, we’re exploring the possibility of state funding for a new campus center.

"It will not be immediate," the president said. "Right now, we need to prepare for it."

Mike Cardinal, an architect from BBLD Architects in Bloomington, met with staff members March 2-4 to explain the projects being planned.

The new building, according to Cardinal, "creates a front door to the campus."

Rousey added, "We want that (the front entrance) to be our show point."

The intent, according to Rousey, is to make the front door area look like the rest of the campus architecture.

The new Campus Center will be home to Admissions, Student Services, the Bookstore, the Cafeteria, and the Kitchen, all on the main level.

The upper level will consist of student lounges, student organizations, classrooms, meeting rooms, and business and industry offices.

Other areas are scheduled to be moved also, according to Rousey. The bookstore will become the copy center and library processing. In place of the copy center will be a Technology Center and library processing will be used as a storage area. The cafeteria will be the Academic Achievement Center from LRC-B, which is scheduled to become four classrooms. The Dislocated Workers’ Center will be located where Student Services is now. The main lobby will become a student lounge.

The Counseling Center will stay where it is presently.

Rousey also said, "Bathrooms will be added in order to have both Men’s and Women’s on each floor of each building."

Other construction being planned is an addition to building A to increase the size of the life sciences lab and the library, Rousey said.

The lab will then have room for a computer lab and a SMART classroom.

According to Cardinal, "It will minimize the need to run concurrent classes at the same time."

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