Buildings & Grounds Blog Update

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.

Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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SCUP Link

Lawrence Biemiller and Scott Carlson at The Chronicle of Higher Education continue to author the most frequently updated information source about facilities planning in higher education, the Buildings & Grounds Blog. We expect that Carlson will be covering a number of sessions at SCUP–45 in July.

Recent posts include:

• Florida Southern Plans to Add a Usonian House to Its Wright Collection
• Book Highlights Modern Architecture at Princeton
• Webster U. Plans New Academic, Science Buildings
• Pasadena City College Arts Center Is Delayed by State Architect
• U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh to Turn Food and Yard Waste Into Energy
• Dickinson College Will Turn Unused Cupola Into a Birdhouse
• In New York, Sullivan County Community College Plans New Dorms
• Master Plan Would Make Appalachian State U. Campus Pedestrian-Friendly
• Presidents' Climate Commitment Report Released
• Virginia Tech Unveils Plans for $89-Million Arts Center
• In Arid Palm Springs, the College of the Desert Plans a Green Expansion
• Missouri State U. Students Protest Cost of Planned Recreation Center

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Buildings & Grounds Roundup

You might not regularly take the time to visit The Chronicle of Higher Education's Buildings & Grounds blog, but you probably should. It's the best place to get a continuous stream of news about capital projects on campuses, and related topics.

As of January 22 (the last Palindrome Day of 2010), some of the most recent items included:

• Wiser Education Center and Greenhouse at Swarthmore College;
• University of Pennsylvania's Skirkanich Hall gets an AIA honor award;
• Lassiter Rotunda at Palm Beach Atlantic University;
• Western University opens 180,000 sf Health Education Center;
• $3M gift will fund track and field complex at St. John Fisher College;
• $27.2M addition to college of Charleston Building is a 'work of art'; and
• A professor at Clarkson University has developed a durable concrete block from recycled local industrial projects, which is being used in Clarkson's new student center.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA

The 'Buildings & Grounds" Blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Every once in a while we feel the need to remind you to visit this great facilities planning resource. Lawrence Biemiller and Scott Carlson, together, create more reporting - shared information - about new buildings, renovations, and campus planning - than perhaps all other pertinent resources put together. For example, recent stories include: The Clifton Mansion, 'Last Remnant' of Johns Hopkins U. Founder, Deteriorates; Soon to Open, Cooper Union's New Building Surprises Inside and Out; Foiling Hackers With a Super Secure Room at Utica College; City College of San Francisco Settles Lawsuit and Plans Expansion in Chinatown; An Old Gym at Alfred U. Houses a Rare Wooden Running Track; and a guest blog by AASHE staffer Niles Barnes, Putting Sustainability's Savings to Good Use.