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IMPROVEMENT OF INFR ASTRUCTURE & RESOURCES
Boora Architects’ rendering provides a preview of the finished teaching and learning building, the first academic institution in the nation to utilize BubbleDeck. Community members signed BubbleDeck balls that are now incorporated into the building.
HMC Strategic Vision in Action- Improvement of Infrastructure and Resources DYNAMIC BUILDING SOON WILL BE A CAMPUS FOCAL POINT
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During fall 2011, Mudders bid a final farewell to Tomas- Garrett Hall, the College’s first classroom building. In its place will be a sustainability-compliant, 70,000-square-foot academic building. Construction of this triumph of ultra-modern design and
engineering is proceeding on schedule. Te teaching and learning building will support and enhance HMC’s unique blend of collaborative, interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Intended to serve as the new focal point of the campus, the
building will double the College’s existing teaching and learn- ing space. Classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices and public
WE ANTICIPATE THE NEW BUILDING SERVING AS A NATIONAL MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. —P R E S IDEN T MA R I A K L AWE
spaces will be flexible and technologically advanced, capable of supporting the widest range of pedagogies and learning styles. Te design of the spaces was a community effort. Stake-
holders, including students and alumni, had a hand in the pro- cess. Joined by faculty and staff, they drafted recommendations to help the architects fashion a structure that will unite the HMC community, foster better faculty-student interaction, help HMC attract and retain the best personnel and enrollees, and provide a home for creativity-nurturing digital media and related technologies. A novel feature of the new building is its cutting-edge,
environmentally friendly floor slab system, which employs 90,000 hollow plastic spheres (each about the size of a soccer ball). Tese orbs are placed in prefabricated concrete sections, which are engineered to carry the load (instead of transferring it to beams and girders, as convention dictates). Because the slabs were made with 35 percent less concrete than traditional floors, the CO2
emissions during their manufacture and transportation
were reduced. Tis slab system—known as BubbleDeck—is the first of its
kind in the United States and provides an exceptional degree of strength, freedom and flexibility in architectural design. “We anticipate the new building serving as a national model
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for sustainable campus design and construction,” said President Maria Klawe. Construction is scheduled to be completed by sum- mer 2013. “Our students and faculty deserve world-class facili- ties, and that is why we are expanding our space and resources with this project.”
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