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The University of Louisville is constructing the $14-million Community Park student housing facility on its Belknap Campus. Designed by Louisville-based Luckett & Farley, the four-story, 350-bed dormitory will feature private and double suites, as well as offices and meeting rooms for campus organizations. The general contractor is Messer Construction of Cincinnati. The project will be developed, owned and managed by Memphis-based Education Realty Trust. The facility is slated for completion in fall 2006.
Boise State University opened a new academic facility on its 150-acre West campus in Nampa, Idaho, in June 2005. The 65,600-sf building houses 14 classrooms (including a computer classroom); two distance learning classrooms; lab prep rooms for chemistry, biology, and physics; three teaching labs; a computer lab; offices for faculty, student services, and administration; a branch library; two conference rooms; a bookstore; and study lounges. The new building will accommodate classes in math, English, anthropology, biology, chemistry, and physics.
Embedded computer component maker SBS Technologies has relocated to its new $7-million office and assembly building in Albuquerque, N.M. Providing 17,000 sf more space than SBS' previous Albuquerque location, the 47,000-sf facility is located in the Journal Center II development.
Sedgwick County has awarded Kechi-based Walz Harman & Huffman Construction the $6.8 million contract to build the county's new Public Safety Center in Wichita. Construction will begin on the two-story, 27,000-sf building in early July 2005. Designed by Wichita-based Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture, the facility is expected to reach completion in 18 months. The total cost of the project is $10.4 million including preparation, design, and equipment.
George Fox University began the $4.1-million expansion and renovation of the Hoover Academic Building in Newberg, Ore. on July 5, 2005. Accommodating the University's new bachelor of science nursing program, the two-phase project was designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca of Portland. The general contractor is Robert Gray Partners with KPFF as structural engineer.
