Construction on Residential College North and a faculty in-residence apartment is set to begin today.
The facilities are scheduled to be completed for fall 2012 and will provide 358 beds for students and the first faculty in-residence building on campus, said Jay High, communications manager of Residential Life.
Residential College North and the faculty in-residence building will cost ResLife $15.4 million to build, High said. Lincoln Builders, a Louisiana-based company, will be in charge of the construction.
“This building program will help the entire state,” High said. “It will provide a lot of jobs to those who live in Louisiana and give back to the community.”
The two buildings will be added to the Residential College Complex, which currently consists of the Engineering and the Business Residential College dorms, which are also known as Residential Colleges South and West, High said.
Residential College North will be located in the Graham lot, the gravel parking lot beside the Business Residential College, and the faculty building will be built into the side of the hill between the Residential College Complex and the Pentagon, High said.
The major assigned to Residential College North will be chosen by a committee composed of senior members of Academic Affairs and Student Life, High said.
The faculty in-residence building is designed to house a professor and his or her family in a two-bedoom apartment and will also include community space or offices, according to ResLife Associate Director of Facilities Maintenance Karen Rockett.
Residential College North will be part of the larger community of the Residential College Complex and its own small community, High said. The Residential College Complex shares classroom and lobby space and also holds crawfish boils.
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