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Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Anne Stephenson
Even the greenest construction project increases a college’s carbon footprint.
Other News
Land-Rich Universities Weigh New Options for Real-Estate Development
Universities are taking advantage of new ways to develop their holdings through corporate partnerships, a new report says.
U. of Iowa Begins Mucking Out and Assessing the Damage
The university's insurer spent the weekend starting to assess the damage to the auditorium and 19 other flooded buildings.
U. of Iowa Flooding Takes Costly Toll in Research and Equipment
Parking lots are under water, some roads leading to the campus are closed, and the campus utility infrastructure is damaged.
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
Shop Talk: New Campuses -- 2 Up, 1 Down
 (Tidewater Community College image) |
In Virginia, the tide comes in: Construction is under way on a new 35-acre Tidewater Community College campus in Portsmouth, Va., according to The Virginian-Pilot. The new campus’s brick buildings and quadrangle are designed to give it the look of a traditional campus because the two-year institution’s students “want all the bells and whistles of the full collegiate experience,” says Tidewater’s president, Deborah DiCroce. Facilities will include 25 classrooms, 20 teaching labs, 11 computer labs, and a public library, according to a Tidewater news release. Among the offerings will be a new nursing program, expanded instruction in air-conditioning and welding, and new joint programs with local public schools.
But the tide runs out on “CUNY by the sea”: Budget problems have prompted the City University of New York to drop plans to build a new “minicampus” in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens, according to the Daily News. The campus, promoted as CUNY by the sea by the Queens Borough president, Helen Marshall, would have occupied an abandoned 1932 courthouse.
Horizon Center 1 is expected to open next year. (U. of South Carolina image)
Back-up plan in Columbia: Two more developers are joining a research-campus project that the University of South Carolina says is the key to the economic future of downtown Columbia, according to The State. Two state-financed buildings are already under construction on the new Innovista campus, including Horizon Center 1, but the original private partner on the project has not yet started the first of two buildings that are to be built with private money. The university says the new campus has “reinvented the notion of how and where researchers will live and work,” by mixing high-tech facilities with “a mix of new restaurants, residences, retail, and green spaces for recreation,” as well as a baseball stadium.
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