New construction, less accessablility
Michael Moore
Issue date: 4/1/09 Section: The Edge
During a budget meeting last Friday, the Board of Trustees voted to approve a campus-wide street lamp replacement project.
Construction is slated to begin around April 10, and electricians, maintenance workers, designers, street lamp manufacturer representatives, masons and caterers are already setting up shop around the first lamp to be replaced in front of Thompson Hall. The work crews will be replacing the mid-1960s lamps with newer, slightly more efficient design lamps that consultants are estimating will each require roughly four months to install.
Project development manager Doug Parker has been getting a number of complaints from both students and staff about the supposedly unnecessarily large perimeter fence that has been erected around each of the light posts to be dismantled.
"Basically, for each of these lights, we have a 35-person deconstruction and removal crew, a 56-person construction crew, the 17
construction consultants and
corporate representatives, not to mention the 25 equipment tractor-trailers. I don't know how many of these people complaining are lighting system experts, but there's no way we can complete this project by our projected 2034 deadline without these perimeters being erected
beforehand."
Until all the lamps have been replaced and the crews find permanent homes again, students are asked to re-route their regular paths with these minor construction obstacles in consideration. The image to the right shows the projected pathways that students will be able to follow to navigate the campus .
"I think it's great that we're finally getting some new lights around the campus," sophomore law enforcement and justice administration major Ryne Tobin, a Corbin Hall resident, remarked.
"Not that there was anything at all wrong with the old ones," he added. "The construction is definitely going to make getting to a lot of my classes a hassle. Not to mention that the last thing this school needs to do is spend more money to fix things that aren't broken, but I guess they'll probably look really cool or
something."
The grand unveiling of the new lights is scheduled for Saturday April 8, 2034. Las Vegas-based magician Lance Burton is booked to do a spectacular "lights tricks" themed performance, assuming he is still alive.
Construction is slated to begin around April 10, and electricians, maintenance workers, designers, street lamp manufacturer representatives, masons and caterers are already setting up shop around the first lamp to be replaced in front of Thompson Hall. The work crews will be replacing the mid-1960s lamps with newer, slightly more efficient design lamps that consultants are estimating will each require roughly four months to install.
Project development manager Doug Parker has been getting a number of complaints from both students and staff about the supposedly unnecessarily large perimeter fence that has been erected around each of the light posts to be dismantled.
"Basically, for each of these lights, we have a 35-person deconstruction and removal crew, a 56-person construction crew, the 17
construction consultants and
corporate representatives, not to mention the 25 equipment tractor-trailers. I don't know how many of these people complaining are lighting system experts, but there's no way we can complete this project by our projected 2034 deadline without these perimeters being erected
beforehand."
Until all the lamps have been replaced and the crews find permanent homes again, students are asked to re-route their regular paths with these minor construction obstacles in consideration. The image to the right shows the projected pathways that students will be able to follow to navigate the campus .
"I think it's great that we're finally getting some new lights around the campus," sophomore law enforcement and justice administration major Ryne Tobin, a Corbin Hall resident, remarked.
"Not that there was anything at all wrong with the old ones," he added. "The construction is definitely going to make getting to a lot of my classes a hassle. Not to mention that the last thing this school needs to do is spend more money to fix things that aren't broken, but I guess they'll probably look really cool or
something."
The grand unveiling of the new lights is scheduled for Saturday April 8, 2034. Las Vegas-based magician Lance Burton is booked to do a spectacular "lights tricks" themed performance, assuming he is still alive.
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