Archive for May, 2011
RFQ
RFQ On Friday of last week, I sent out an RFQ (request for qualifications) to 13 firms: Ballinger Burt Hill BWBR EllenZweig Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott (EYP) Hastings and Chivetta Henningson, Durham & Richardson (HDR) Holabird and Root HGA Lord, Aeck & Sargent Inc. Perkins & Will Raffferty Rafferty Tollefson & Lindeke (RRTL) Zimmerman, Gunsul […]
St. Olaf
Regents Hall Julie Bartley, Scott Bur, John Clementson, and Jim Dontje visited St. Olaf’s Regent’s Hall. We discussed how they selected their architect, how the faculty worked with the architect, what kinds of things they wanted the building to “do.” They looked for ways to encourage interdisciplinarity and facilitate modern pedagogies, among other things. Here’s […]
Blue Sky Thinking
Angie Archer, Kent Kalm, and Dwight Stoll strategizing Fanciful Horizons From February 22, 2011 to March 11, 2011, the faculty from programs and departments in Nobel Hall and a few allied programs/departments participated in a series of “Blue Sky” thinking exercises. Here is a description of the process we used. A series of posters […]
NHS Facilities Planning
Nobel Hall Of Sciences This blog archives the planning and execution of facilities updates in Nobel Hall. In addition to this blog, a moodle page has been created (NHS Facilities Planning). Documents that we generate (like meeting minutes, etc.) and documents that we use (like strategic plans) will be stored here. Neither this blog nor […]