Construction Updates

After more than two years of recreating the Student Memorial Center (SMC) as the heart of University activity, numerous construction projects are finally coming to a close. By late-August, construction on the SMC should be finished.

Currently, finishing touches are being made on the renovation of the upstairs Student Services, Inc., wing and the Reighard Multipurpose Room. The work on new meeting rooms, 202, 203 and 204, will also soon be concluded. The University Store, the Copy Shop and Textbook Room were completed in mid-July.

Downstairs, renovation is ending on meeting rooms 18 and 24, WIXQ, the Technical Operations Offices, The Snapper, Touchstone Yearbook, Club DeVille and the office of intramurals/club sports. In addition, two aerobics studios and the multi-activity courts, which have been recently named “Marauder Court,” have been added, to go along with the renovation of the racquetball courts and the locker rooms. In these areas, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, ceiling, flooring, painting and carpeting will all be ongoing until the end of August.

In October, to mark its full completion, the SMC will have finished landscaping and a statue of the Marauder will be placed on top of a large rock near the clock tower on the SMC Promenade, between the SMC and Gordinier Hall.

Elsewhere on campus, the Visual and Performing Arts Center (VPAC) project had a slight delay due to rain. According to project manager Greg Petruno, “We are currently about 50 percent done; it is beginning to become enclosed with exterior skin, steel, masonry and building panels.” VPAC is scheduled to finish at the end of February-early March 2012.