Construction winds down on Hayes-Healy-Hurley, Malloy Hall
by Scott Brodfuehrer
News Writer
When this year's graduating seniors first stepped on campus, they bought their books in a small cramped bookstore at the site of the Coleman-Morse center, were the first freshmen to live in McGlinn and Welsh Family Halls and the first male freshmen to live in Knott and Siegfried Halls. The class was here through the renovation of the Main Building and South Dining Hall, the building of the Rolfs Sports Recreation Center and the opening of the newly renovated Notre Dame Stadium.
When these new alumni return to the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's campuses in a few years, even more transformations will have taken place.
Notre Dame's math department and international studies department completed their move this week into the Hayes-Healy Center and Hurley Hall. The international studies department was housed in the Main Building until its renovation four years ago, and then moved to Hurley Hall.
While Hurley was being renovated for the past two years, the department was housed in the Security Building, but is now in a more central location on campus. The London Program, formerly housed in O'Shaughnessy Hall, also moved to Hurley Hall.
"It will be very helpful to students to have all the international study programs in one location on the center of campus," said Claudia Kselman, associate director of the international studies department.
The math department was housed in the Computing Center and Math Building (CCMB) since it was built in 1962 before being moved to the Hayes-Healy Center this week. The new facility provides more space and better facilities for the department. The buildings have 10 classrooms – two 30-seat seminar rooms, two 32-seat classrooms, two 56-seat classrooms, 2 72-seat classrooms, and one 132 seat auditorium.
"All of us are very happy with the move. You name it, we have it: better offices, better secretaries' offices, better seminar rooms and it's better lit. It's much nicer looking," said Juan Migliore, director of undergraduate studies for the math department.
In addition to better office facilities, there are classrooms in the building and more professors will be able to teach in the same building as their office.
"First year classes are more likely to be here … more professors will be teaching in this building than in the CCMB," said Migliore.
Work will continue this summer on the new Malloy Hall, which will house the Philosophy and Theology buildings, with a scheduled completion date of Aug. 1.
"We are finishing up the interior, the carpet and the ceilings and finishing up the electrical outlets. Sitework, like sidewalks around the building and landscaping also must be completed. Hopefully the departments will be able to move in right after Aug. 1," said Dianna Creech, the coordinator of the Malloy Hall construction.
This summer, work will begin on an extension of Stepan Chemistry Hall. According to Joseph Schellinger, director of academic space management, the expansion will be on the north end of the building and will be a square addition, stretching from the end of the wing of the building to the access road heading to LaFortune Student Center. The addition is scheduled to include five research laboratories and nine faculty offices and will not disrupt the current road structure.
An addition to the Hesburgh Center for International Studies will also be constructed, beginning this summer.
"It's predominantly office space at the southeast corner of the building. We plan to have 19 private offices and three administrative offices," said Schellinger.
Work on the housing complex for visiting professors is currently behind schedule due to bad weather. The building, which was scheduled to open this fall, should be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the spring semester. It is located across from the Fischer Graduate Residences Community Center and will contain 24 apartments, which will be managed by academic space management.
Construction will also take place this summer at Saint Mary's, with minor renovations to McCandless Hall.
"Beginning this week, we will be installing sprinklers throughout the building and renovating the hall directors room, the chapel and the entry area," said Keith Dennis, Vice President for Finance and Administration.
Dennis said construction at Dalloway's Coffeehouse patio is "substantially complete" and will be completed by commencement.
"They have laid almost all of the bricks, and it will be ready for the receptions this weekend because some receptions in the clubhouse may spill out onto the patio," said Dennis.
Other construction scheduled to begin within the next four years:
*There will be a major renovation of the Hesburgh Library, beginning in January 2002 with the reconfiguration and renovation of the basement.
*Construction on the Marie Debartolo Center for Performing Arts will begin soon and some preliminary work has already been completed. The center will contain a 900-seat concert hall, a movie theater, an organ and chorale hall and a studio theater.
*A new law school, multidisciplinary engineering teaching and learning center and hotel are in the initial planning stages.
*Indiana University will construct a building on the corner of Angela Ave. and Notre Dame Ave. that will house its South Bend Center for Medical Education and Notre Dame's Walther Cancer Research Center.
All News Stories for Friday, May 18, 2001
