The WSU regents not only attended groundbreaking for the Intercollegiate College of Nursing building at their regular October meeting, but they also approved several other construction projects in various stages of completion:
• McCluskey Services addition. This 4,500-square-foot addition will provide offices for Architecture & Engineering Services and Construction Services staff as well as drafting support/intern spaces, archive space for drawings and files, and a conference room. Moving 25-30 staff into the new space will allow the main building to be reconfigured to address overcrowding that has resulted from growth in Facilities Operations staff.
Brown Construction is scheduled to begin work in December on the $1.3 million project and complete it by April 2007. It is funded with a combination of minor capital improvement and departmental funds and was designed in-house by Facilities Operations Architectural & Engineering Services in conjunction with Coffman Engineering.
• WSU Vancouver’s Undergraduate Classroom Building. Completing predesign for this project in August allowed it to proceed immediately into design, as intended by the state Legislature when it funded both predesign and design in the 2005-07 biennium.
Led by the Portland, Ore., architecture firm of Thomas Hacker and Associates, schematic design is nearing completion. Anticipated to be approximately 54,000 gross square feet, this multifloor classroom building will be sited on the Mount Hood Pedestrian Corridor near the center of campus.
The building will provide general classrooms, instructional computer labs, faculty offices and designated class breakout areas in order to meet the fundamental goal of fully integrating lower-division students into the campus population. The building also will meet current and future demands for additional classrooms and faculty offices within the campus core.
The $28-million project’s design will be completed by July 2007 and bid in July-August, with a fall 2007 construction start. It is anticipated it will be available for occupancy in July 2009.
• Golf course clubhouse. The proposed Palouse Ridge Golf Course clubhouse is located in the center of the course and will provide expansive views of the Palouse hills, becoming a destination for students, alumni, faculty, staff and visitors to Pullman. Approximately 7,000 gross square feet, the clubhouse will have the capacity to house 80-100 guests for special events.
The planned building includes a pro shop, lounge area and dining facilities as well as outdoor terraces. The support spaces include restrooms, limited locker and shower facilities, offices, kitchen and kitchen support areas.
This project is scheduled to complete design in December, with construction to commence in April 2007 and a completion date of fall 2007. Budgeted at $4 million, the project’s source of funds will be a combination of donated and local money.
Not part of the regents meeting, but in the works:
• Police Services and amphitheater. In 2007-09, plans call for renovation of the Bookie building, transforming it into a multidisciplines facility. WSU Police Services would be consolidated and located on the lower level, with a neighborhood outreach office on the first floor. This will allow police support facilities and the computer forensics laboratory — now located in multiple locations throughout campus — to be housed together. The Bookie plans to move into the renovated CUB.
Decommissioning and removal of the existing Public Safety Building will make way for implementation of a critical portion of the Terrell Mall Vision Plan — a large amphitheater of open space terraced into the hillside surrounded by the Smith CUE Building, Wilson Hall, a planned art museum expansion and the CUB.
Too preliminary to establish a budget or schedule, this project will provide a venue for visual and performing arts, as well as reinforcing the academic “Main Street” of Terrell Mall, creating innumerable opportunities for use during conferences, activities during athletic events, academic gatherings, and support of CUB cultural activities.
