Storch to get more rooms
Science buildings to be renovated now through 2014, with first phase this summer
Osas Obaiza
Issue date: 4/3/09 Section: News
The science buildings will undergo construction and restoration starting this summer, as part of Trinity's ongoing project to update its academic buildings. The renovations will occur in four phases, the first of which will be this summer and the last of which should be completed by 2014.
Cowles Life Science, the Storch Building, Parker Chapel, Chapman Auditorium and Moody Engineering will all be undergoing renovation.
"The construction will be done in a series of phases so instruction can still be maintained throughout the building process. The idea is that in doing it in phases there will always be a place to teach class," said Steven M. Bachrach, chair of the department of chemistry.
The first phase will be completed over the summer of 2009 and will include the moving of the Anthropology and Sociology departments into Storch as well as the addition of more classrooms to Storch.
The Chapmen Lecture Hall will also be remolded in order to become a more multifunctional space. It will serve as a replacement for the Science Lecture Hall, which will be under construction.
There will also be a classroom added in the Parker Chapel to help alleviate any problems with a lack of class space due to the addition of the two departments to Storch.
"The second phase, called the schematic phase will finalize the location of the new buildings, the actual structure and modeling, as well as the overall budget," said Physical Plant Director John Greene.
The committee has recently contacted an architectural firm to help with the process.
The firm is called Einhorn Yaffee Prescott (EYP). The firm has done a lot of work with science and engineering buildings on many institutions of higher learning. Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and New York University are a few of their previous clients.
Once the firm completes phase two they can move to phase three, which entails the complete removal of all classes out of Cowles and the renovation of the building.
Cowles Life Science, the Storch Building, Parker Chapel, Chapman Auditorium and Moody Engineering will all be undergoing renovation.
"The construction will be done in a series of phases so instruction can still be maintained throughout the building process. The idea is that in doing it in phases there will always be a place to teach class," said Steven M. Bachrach, chair of the department of chemistry.
The first phase will be completed over the summer of 2009 and will include the moving of the Anthropology and Sociology departments into Storch as well as the addition of more classrooms to Storch.
The Chapmen Lecture Hall will also be remolded in order to become a more multifunctional space. It will serve as a replacement for the Science Lecture Hall, which will be under construction.
There will also be a classroom added in the Parker Chapel to help alleviate any problems with a lack of class space due to the addition of the two departments to Storch.
"The second phase, called the schematic phase will finalize the location of the new buildings, the actual structure and modeling, as well as the overall budget," said Physical Plant Director John Greene.
The committee has recently contacted an architectural firm to help with the process.
The firm is called Einhorn Yaffee Prescott (EYP). The firm has done a lot of work with science and engineering buildings on many institutions of higher learning. Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and New York University are a few of their previous clients.
Once the firm completes phase two they can move to phase three, which entails the complete removal of all classes out of Cowles and the renovation of the building.
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