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College Employees Value Campus Environment, 'Chronicle' Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list. (Chronicle photograph of Washington & Lee U.)
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: Marc Mayerson
Like swashbuckling movie heroes, facilities planners take on herculean tasks.
Other News
Campus Planners Discuss Challenges in Attaining Sustainability
Analyzing How Students Choose Colleges Is Key Topic at Meeting of Planners
Specialized Developers Helping More Colleges to Meet Housing Needs
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: a Loss and a Gain at Stanford U., and More
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One down, one up at Stanford: Stanford University will demolish its 41-year-old Meyer Library (right), rather than spend some $45-million on a seismic retrofit that would make it safer during earthquakes. The building, which now houses Stanford’s 520,000-volume East Asia Library, originally served as the university’s main undergraduate library. It was designed by John Carl Warnecke, a prominent Modernist. Meanwhile, the university has picked Polshek Partnership Architects to design a new performing-arts center that will have a 900-seat concert hall and, eventually, a 500-seat theater for drama and dance productions, an outdoor theater garden, a café with informal performance spaces, a costume shop, and other related facilities. The concert hall is expected to open in 2012.
Two projects at Chicago: The University of Chicago’s trustees have signed off on two construction projects — a new home for the cramped Harris School of Public Policy and a new physical-sciences building, according to the Chicago Maroon. The Harris School building, which is to be located next to the law school, is expected to cost between $50-million and $60-million, and construction is to begin next September. The physical-sciences building will house classrooms and offices for astronomy, astrophysics, and computer science, and will be home to several research institutes as well. The university’s physical-sciences division has also recommended demolishing two buildings so that a new science quadrangle can be created.
Two exemptions at Brown: Brown University’s trustees have exempted two construction projects from new, stricter financing guidelines because of “extenuating circumstances,” according to a long article about the university’s finances in The Brown Daily Herald. The new guidelines require the university to secure half the money for a project, rather than just 20 percent, before hiring an architect and proceeding to the design phase. But a new aquatics center and a long-planned building for cognitive and linguistic sciences were granted exemptions, the latter because it is an academic priority.
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