Construction has started on the new Center for Undergraduate Research in Bird Library, and the center will be open for use by the beginning of the spring semester, according to a campus-wide email on Thursday.

The center, located on the second floor of Bird, will expand undergraduate research opportunities by encouraging faculty and student collaboration, said Pete Sala, Syracuse University’s vice president and chief facilities officer, in the email. Improvements are also being made in a fifth-floor suite in Bird that will house the LGBT Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Disability Cultural Center.

The LGBT Resource Center will move to the library in January 2019. The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Disability Cultural Center will move to Bird following commencement in 2019.

Multiple locations at SU are installing door operators to increase accessibility on campus. Faculty Services placed a door operator in the Heroy Geology Building and is currently installing operators in Carnegie Library. The Carnegie renovations will be done by the end of December, Sala said in the email.

Door operators will also be placed at multiple Carrier Dome gates by the end of February.

The first phase of SU’s Campus Planning, Design and Construction department’s project to improve campus signage is complete, Sala said in the email. Signs were installed along University Avenue and Waverly Avenue to direct visitors to Crouse-Hinds Hall, where SU’s Office of Admissions is located, he said. Additional phases will create a signage standard for the whole university.

Other construction to be completed, per the email:

• Renovations will be made to student rooms in DellPlain Hall, including new layouts, furniture and flooring. The first of two phases for the renovations is to scheduled to begin this summer, Sala said.
• Four labs in the Center for Science and Technology will receive updates beginning in January, Sala said. The work is expected to be complete by early spring semester.
• Mechanical and electrical systems are almost completely installed in Building A of The Arch, the new health, wellness and recreation center replacing Archbold Gymnasium. Building B is having steel structures built, and concrete foundation wall pouring started in Building C of the complex. The Arch is expected to be complete by fall 2019.

Published on December 14, 2018 at 1:14 pm

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