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Luther College

Sampson Hoffland Laboratories On Friday, June 10, Brandy Russell, Joel Carlin, and Scott Bur visited Luther College to see the new Sampson Hoffland Laboratories (opened in 2008) and the renovated Valders Hall of Science.  The Opus Group was contracted for this add and renovate project.  Some of the things to notice in the photos are the […]

Beloit College

Center for the Sciences On Friday, May 27, Julie Bartley, Scott Bur, and Jeff Dahlseid visited Beloit College to see their recently opened science facility.  Planning began in the late 90s, but the building wasn’t dedicated until 2008.  Initially, the planning involved an “add and renovate” project, but it became clear during the process that […]

Lawrence University

Steitz Science Hall Julie Bartley, Scott Bur, and Jeff Dahlseid visited Lawrence University on Thursday, May 26.  Lawrence’s 72,000-square foot Steitz Science Hall may be the best example example we’ve seen of our assumptions to add and renovate.  Programming happened in the early 90s, and the building was dedicated in 2000, with renovation of Youngchild Hall […]

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 […]