Posted Aug 29, 2019, 11:21 AM
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Campus construction continues over summer - Rice University
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Construction broke ground on the new building for Sid Richardson College at the end of the summer. According to Anzilla Gilmore, project manager for New Sid, construction should begin soon, if other construction projects remain on schedule.
“The project is expected to start on September 16, but it’s contingent on the completion of the new Will Rice Magister House project,” Gilmore said.
According to Gilmore, issues with hot water and air conditioning in the existing Sid building were partially related to the construction on New Sid.
“We installed new chilled water and steam lines to serve new and old Sid Rich,” Gilmore said. “Old Sid was connected to the new lines because the old lines that served old Sid Rich needed to be replaced. Whether we were building the new Sid Rich or not, the lines that serve old Sid Rich would have needed to be replaced.”
According to Sid’s website, the New Sid building will have 12 levels, with the commons, magister’s house, admin space and multifunctional rooms on the first and second floors, and residential spaces on the 10 floors above. Unlike the current Sid building, New Sid will include singles and doubles.
Gilmore said that the building should be completed by November 2020.
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Will Rice Magister House
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The Will Rice Magister House began construction in fall 2018. Although the building was projected to be complete by Orientation Week 2019, construction is still underway.
Once the new Will Rice Magister House is completed, the previous Magister House will be demolished to make space for the new Sid Richardson College building.
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Kraft Hall
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The new Social Sciences building Kraft Hall broke ground last fall in September 2018. The building is located between Tudor Fieldhouse and Hanszen College on the former Recreation Field 6.
Larry Vossler, the construction manager for Kraft Hall, said that after completion the building will be used for both office and classroom space.
“Kraft Hall includes space for [five] classrooms on the first floor,” Vossler said. “The first floor will also include a multipurpose space for events. The upper floors will be primarily office space and conference rooms for the School of Social Sciences Dean’s Suite, sociology department, economics department, Kinder Institute, HERC, Boniuk Institute and Texas Policy Lab.”
According to Housing and Dining’s website, construction on Kraft Hall is expected to be completed by December 2019.
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Music and Performing Arts Center
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Construction on the Music and Performing Arts Center began in September 2017. Once completed, the Arts Center will be a three-story opera theater located between West Lot and Alice Pratt Brown Hall. The building will include a 600-seat auditorium and a 70-seat orchestra pit, along with backstage spaces like dressing and conductor’s rooms, a musician’s lounge and a green room.
To make space for the construction of the Arts Center, Laboratory Road was closed and the front row of parking in West Lot 4 was removed.
According to H&D’s website, the Arts Center is expected to be open by July 2020.
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