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02-14-2011, 07:41 PM
Architecture hall suffers setbacks due to asbestos Ana Lastra/The Daily
Originally published 11:16 a.m., February 14, 2011, updated 03:01 p.m., February 14, 2011
Construction on the College of Architecture’s Gould Hall has suffered setbacks with costs estimating thousands of dollars because of problems with bricks and asbestos, an OU professor said.
Even with these setbacks, the interior work that is still being done will continue, said Christina Hoehn, assistant professor of interior design.
“The building is closed and heated so subcontractors and contractors can still work,” said Hoehn.
At the end of construction, the building will have more than 107,000 square feet of space and will house all five disciplines under the College of Architecture, according to the college’s website.
A faculty team, along with members of Bockus Payne Associates Architects, has been working together to design a building that will generate strong interest and collaboration among students.
“The technology in the building will be state of the art; we will be featured in national magazines and give lots of tours to those interested,” Hoehn said.
Bockus Payne Associates Architects has also worked on Ellison Hall, McCasland Field House, Whitehand Hall and Wallace Old Science Hall.
Gould Hall is set to open in the spring, and students can expect to have classes in the building this fall, for the first time in three years.
How in the HELL does a building that has been gutted to literally its most bare frame which is to say raw structural steel (insulation removed off of the columns too even) have asbestos problems? And why doesn't the damn Daily give more info than they do? Really, nothing at all as to why there are setbacks? Not a question at all? The only plausible thing I can think of is something relating to connecting the building to the utility tunnel system, which DOES have asbestos. But even then, that is a known factor, and the tunnel is pretty much seperate from the building except for one or two connection points that are secure from the public. So unless someone used some old building materials or forgot to remove something, there should not be an issue. Really, I wonder how OU gets their construction projects done sometimes with the backwards logic they use for renovating and constructing their buildings (and actually I give them credit for taking Gould to bare frame and totally re doing it).
Oh, and the daily sucks. A lot. Doesn't even pass as journalism at all, not to mention the countless grammatical mistakes I often see that make it to print.
FromTtown
Originally published 11:16 a.m., February 14, 2011, updated 03:01 p.m., February 14, 2011
Construction on the College of Architecture’s Gould Hall has suffered setbacks with costs estimating thousands of dollars because of problems with bricks and asbestos, an OU professor said.
Even with these setbacks, the interior work that is still being done will continue, said Christina Hoehn, assistant professor of interior design.
“The building is closed and heated so subcontractors and contractors can still work,” said Hoehn.
At the end of construction, the building will have more than 107,000 square feet of space and will house all five disciplines under the College of Architecture, according to the college’s website.
A faculty team, along with members of Bockus Payne Associates Architects, has been working together to design a building that will generate strong interest and collaboration among students.
“The technology in the building will be state of the art; we will be featured in national magazines and give lots of tours to those interested,” Hoehn said.
Bockus Payne Associates Architects has also worked on Ellison Hall, McCasland Field House, Whitehand Hall and Wallace Old Science Hall.
Gould Hall is set to open in the spring, and students can expect to have classes in the building this fall, for the first time in three years.
How in the HELL does a building that has been gutted to literally its most bare frame which is to say raw structural steel (insulation removed off of the columns too even) have asbestos problems? And why doesn't the damn Daily give more info than they do? Really, nothing at all as to why there are setbacks? Not a question at all? The only plausible thing I can think of is something relating to connecting the building to the utility tunnel system, which DOES have asbestos. But even then, that is a known factor, and the tunnel is pretty much seperate from the building except for one or two connection points that are secure from the public. So unless someone used some old building materials or forgot to remove something, there should not be an issue. Really, I wonder how OU gets their construction projects done sometimes with the backwards logic they use for renovating and constructing their buildings (and actually I give them credit for taking Gould to bare frame and totally re doing it).
Oh, and the daily sucks. A lot. Doesn't even pass as journalism at all, not to mention the countless grammatical mistakes I often see that make it to print.
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