U-Conn Trustees Approve Basketball Practice Facility
STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees have approved spending $3 million in private donations to design a new basketball practice facility, slated for a site behind the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, the home of the Huskies’ men’s and women’s basketball teams.
The project, which has been in the works for several years, has a budget of approximately $25 million, according to the university’s athletics director, Jeff Hathaway.
Read More Dallas Firm Awarded $40 Million Contract
LEWISVILLE, Texas — The Lewisville Independent School District selected Dallas-based Charter Builders as construction manager at-risk for a $40 million renovation and expansion project at Lewisville High School. SHW Group, also of Dallas, is the architectural firm designing the expansion, which is slated to last through August 2012.
Calif. Governor Vetoes Bill Targeting School Pesticides
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a state senate bill calling for less hazardous pesticides to be used on school grounds in California.
Supporters of the bill say it would reduce premature puberty in girls and certain kinds of cancers, both linked to the exposure of some kinds of toxins found in pesticides at schools statewide.
Read More $1 Billion Ohio Medical Center Project Begins
$61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.
Read More $61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.
Read More Des Moines District to Fund Deferred Projects
DES MOINES, Iowa — Twenty-four Des Moines-area schools that missed out on approximately $290 million in building improvements over the last 10 years will be the first to receive part of $112.5 million Des Moines Public Schools hopes to collect in the next five years thanks to a statewide one-cent sales tax enacted last July, district officials said.
The statewide tax replaced a local option sales tax. Under the local option tax, the Des Moines district upgraded 31 elementary, middle, and high schools.
Read More Arizona Rec Center Awarded LEED Platinum
TUCSON, Ariz. — A recently expanded recreation center at the University of Arizona was awarded LEED Platinum certification. Designed by architectural firm Sasaki in partnership with M3 Engineering out of Tucson — and originally targeting LEED Silver — the completed project integrates passive solar, programmed outdoor space, daylighting strategies and indoor environmental quality as fundamentals of the building, according to reports.
