Entries tagged with ‘architects’

Concept Charrette

Concept Charrette On January 15, Hastings+Chivetta brought their 3D gaming table to help us visualize the impact of adjacencies.  Over three open sessions, spaces were moved around to provide a new conceptual design that was presented to the Board of Trustees on January 29.  Rendering of the exterior design were also presented. The presentation to […]

Programming Workshops

Programming Workshops The faculty have gone through two programming workshops, and we’ve arrived at a program that needs approximately 190,000 sq ft.  It’s amazing to see my colleagues digging in and dreaming about what the next 50 years might look like.  Details of the program we have built are on the NHS Facilities Planning moodle […]

On to the planning phase….

Moving Forward It’s official! We selected Hastings + Chivetta as the firm to help us move forward with the planning and eventual construction.  In the end, it was a difficult decision because both H+C and BWBR were excellent firms.  I would highly recommend the BWBR crew; they are fantastic people.  Their work on UW Stout […]

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 […]

Centre College

Young Hall Science Center The architect pool was narrowed to Hastings + Chivetta and BWBR.  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) and Dennis Lammert (Project Manager) of […]

Architect Interviews

        On  June 28th, Scott met with President Ohle to discuss the short list for architect selection.  We solicited qualifications from 13 firms.  The committee, consisting of Julie Bartley (Geology), Jeff Dahlseid (Biology, Chemistry, BMB), Jim Dontje (Environmental Studies), Scott Bur (Chemistry), and Warren Wunderlich (Physical Plant Director), narrowed the field to […]

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 […]