The Chronicle's Buildings & Grounds Blog - Mid-October 2007

Lawrence Biemiller and Scott Carlson have been having field days every day since the Chronicle implemented the Buildings & Grounds Blog, where they can post all sorts of campus built environment news. Here are a only a few of the latest posts there:

• Shop Talk: A Boathouse (Oklahoma City University), Building at Broome (Community College), Blowin' Wind (Texas Universities' Purchase of Wind Power), and More
• Salvaging, and Cherishing, the Elements of a Discarded Building
• Geothermal Wells Get 2 Thumbs Up at a Maine Campus
• Getting It Wrong in the 'Loft-Right' Dorms
• Updating Buildings that Scare Off Students (University of Colorado)
• Going From Industrial to Educational in Ohio (Xavier University)
• Princeton's New College Raises a Question: How Do You Judge Collegiate Gothic?