Entries tagged with ‘programming’

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]