Tour the green buildings of the campus’ science district! Ludmilla Pavlova, Senior Campus Planner, and Ted Mendoza, Capitol Project Manager, will lead a walking tour Friday, 4/26 from 3:30-4:30 pm of the Research & Education Greenhouse, the North Chiller Plant, and the new Physical Sciences Building.

Free and open to the public – RSVP at cli.re/6dpK5J!

Tour Schedule
3:30 – 3:35 PM – Meet at the Research & Education Greenhouses

3:35 – 3:50 PM – Tour the Research & Education Greenhouses

Most students have visited the Durfee Conservatory at some point, but what about the Research & Education Greenhouses?  Learn about the College of Natural Sciences LEED Gold teaching and research facilities!

3:50 – 3:55 PM – Walk

3:55 – 4:10 PM – Tour the North Chiller Plant

Get inside the North Chiller Plant, one of the two chiller plants on campus, and learn about the consistent, uninterruptible availability of chilled water, critical to buildings where research-intensive activity occurs. We use chilled water for comfort-related cooling (i.e. air conditioning), as well as chilled water service for research-focused, process-related purposes; for example to cool a laser or temper a chemical reaction. Engineering buff or not, the tour makes the sustainable aspects of this green building digestible and accessible to the general audience.

4:10 – 4:15 PM – Walk

4:15 – 4:30 PM – Tour the Physical Sciences Building

Recently certified LEED Gold, the PSB houses flex laboratories and office space for a wide variety of physics, computational, and synthetic chemistry research.  As part of the project, the existing West Experiment Station (WES) was disassembled, relocated, and rebuilt brick by brick. The rehabilitated structure now houses 20 faculty and graduate student offices from the departments of Physics and Chemistry.

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Get the inside stories of the renovated Old Chapel, South College addition, Integrative Learning Center, and brand new Design Building! Ludmilla Pavlova, Senior Campus Planner, will lead a walking tours on Thursday, 9/14 and 10/5 from 4:00-5:30pm. As a bonus, we will be giving away miniature 3D printed models of the Design Building!

Both tours are free and open to the public; sponsored by Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis, a collaboration of UMass students, librarians, faculty, and staff. The theme of the fall 2017 series is “Our Campus, Our Home.” For more information, visit https://websites.umass.edu/talkingtruth/.

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Tour Schedule
4:00 – 4:05 PM – Meet at W.E.B. DuBois Library lobby

4:05 – 4:20 PM – Old Chapel
New renovations to the iconic structure include a new entry pavilion, double height entry lobby with an elevator, multipurpose space, and the unveiling of the existing rose window on the north elevation viewed from the Great Hall for the first time since 1936.

4:20 – 4:25 PM – Walk

4:25 – 4:40 PM – South College
From 2015-2017, South College underwent a major renovation, restoration, and addition project. The existing structure was restored, and all major building systems were upgraded to meet code. A four-story, 60,000 S.F. addition was constructed on the west side of the building, housing common areas, faculty offices, and classrooms with state-of-the-art audiovisual systems. Together, The renovation and addition now serve as the primary home of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, including the departments of English, Philosophy, Art History, and Women, Gender & Sexual Studies.

4:40 – 4:50 PM – Walk

4:50 – 5:05 PM – Integrative Learning Center
The four-story structure located in the center of campus provides 2,000 seats of new classroom space as well as space for several academic departments including Communication, Journalism, Linguistics, and Film Studies. Classrooms were designed to be fully equipped with newly developing educational technologies in addition to a number of the other digitally enabled learning spaces.

5:05 – 5:15 PM – Walk

5:15 – 5:30 PM – Design Building
The Design Building is located on the southern portion of parking Lot 62 north of the Studio Arts Building and houses the Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, and Building & Construction Technology academic programs. The building is intended to showcase integrated design through a stacked courtyard surrounded by studios, classrooms, workshops, and offices

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