‘Other Insitutions’ Category

Grinnell

Noyce Science Center On July 28, Dwight Stoll (chemistry) and Colleen Jacks (biology) visited Grinnell College’s Noyce Science Center.  The construction involved two phases:  Phase 1 (accomplished in the late 90s) largely involved bringing the old ( 50s and 60s) building wings to code (modern air handling, etc.).  It was messy and many labs, offices, etc. […]

St. Olaf redux

Regent’s Hall of Sciences On July 22, A second crew from Gustavus (including Margaret Bloch Qazi (biology), Mark Bjelland, and Anna Versluis (both of geology))  went to Northfield for a tour of St. Olaf’s Regent’s Hall of Sciences (previous).  They returned with a lot of ideas for our project.  Margaret summarized her observations in the […]

UW Stout

Jarvis Hall On Thursday, August 4, Julie Bartley, Jeff Dahlseid, Jim Dontje, and Scott Bur traveled to UW Stout’s Jarvis Hall with John Strachota and Craig Peterson of BWBR.  This $29.5 million project was a renovation of approximately 64,000 sq ft of existing space and addition of appRoximately 96,000 sq ft of new space.  Although […]

Hanover College

Science Center As part of the selection process, visits to sites that each firm worked on are being conducted.  On Tuesday, August 2, Julie Bartley, Scott Bur, Jeff Dahlseid, and Jim Dontje accompanied Chris Chivetta (Principle-in-charge) of Hastings + Chivetta on a visit to Hanover College’s Science Center.  This $21.4 million project was and add/renovate where […]