New COEHS Building

Scheduled to open in January 2010 the new building for the College of Education and Human Services will be located on the north side of Euclid Avenue, to the east of Fenn Tower. The building will serve as the eastern gateway to the campus and is being designed by the architectural firm of NBBJ (see their website at http://www.nbbj.com/). The 95,000 square foot building, costing about $36 million, will be three stories tall. Its unique shape will provide garden space between it and the Health Science Building to the north, and between it and Fenn Tower to the west.

Major features of the building include:

• Office space for all COEHS departments.
• Classrooms equipped with state of the art technology.
• A technologically-enhanced central public forum space where students, faculty, community members, and regional, national and international leaders in education and nursing can gather to present, share, and discuss relevant issues of importance.
• Informal “gathering” spaces where communities of students, faculty, and staff can collaborate, share, and relax.
• Cutting-edge computer, math education, and science education laboratories.
• Clinical areas for College of Education and Human Services students to gain supervised practice and experience in teaching and tutoring.
• An environmentally friendly, sustainable design.
• An interior infused with natural light from multiple sources.

Take a look at current design plans. Click here to see the latest exterior and interior renderings of the new COEHS building.

Web cam aimed at Construction Site

There is now a web cam aimed at our building site (at least a good portion of it). The camera is on Rhodes Tower and the view blocks out the southwest portion of the site (there is a portion of another building in the way). IS&T is trying to locate a new camera in Fenn Tower that would cover the whole site. Anyway, if you go to the URL noted below and click on the web cam for our building, you'll get the latest "shot" of the site. The photo is updated about every 4 minutes. If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser, you may have to go through a process of downloading and installing an ActiveX program.

Web Cam