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| Peter Larkins | The Appalachian |
| Students make their way past construction
fences between the new Chiller Plant and the Annas Student
Support Building. The construction includes expansion and
renovation of the building, which houses the Counseling Center,
Student Health Services and the Post Office. |
Two construction projects in progress around
the Annas Student Support Building will expand the Post Office and
Counseling Center and add a temporary sidewalk, Clyde D. Robbins,
Director of Design and Construction, said Friday.
Robbins said the sidewalk is scheduled to be finished by the end
of the week.
“There was a lot more concrete down there than anybody ever
envisioned, and we had to add a drainage system, Robbins said.
“That isn’t that unusual. When you open the ground you
never know what you’re going to find.”
The Counseling Center will undergo an expansion in the direction
of the student union and bookstore, Dan Jones, director of the counseling
center, said.
“In addition to adding three offices, we’re renovating
the greeting area and expanding some existing offices,” Jones
said Friday. “We already have part time graduate students and
professors here sometimes, and some of the office space will go
to them.”
The Annas building, which houses the Post Office, Counseling Center
and the Student Health Services, is scheduled for a renovation and
expansion to be finished by the end of the year, W. Kelley Ingram,
facilities architect, said.
“We’re pushing out part of the building, which will contain
1,500 new post office boxes, and we’re expanding out on the
counseling center side so we can add three more offices,” Robbins
said.
Robbins said that the money for this project was a carryover from
the funds used to originally build the Annas building.
“The contractors will provide barricades to internally separate
their work areas from the public areas, all of the current student
post office boxes will remain open,” Ingram said.
“We’ll also set up a temporary service counter.”
Ingram said that all student service areas would remain open and
accessible during construction.
“For a while, direct access to the post office will be off
of Howard Street,” Robbins said.
Internal barricades similar to those in the post office will be
set up around the receptionist’s area of the Counseling Center.
“I expect it will probably be noisy and messy in here for a
while. We’re getting new carpet too. We’ll just have to
move around offices while some of them are being renovated,”
Jones said.
“But we’re grateful to get it. In the long run I think
it will be more helpful, even if there are some difficulties in
the short run.” |
