It takes more than a fresh coat of paint to give Claremont McKenna College its welcoming sparkle for a new academic year. Students, staff, and faculty will notice upgrades and changes throughout campus thanks to the hard work of summer facilities crews.
Among the highlights: The student apartments at the corner of North Claremont Boulevard and East 6th Street have been refurbished. Sports fields have been reconditioned for better quality of grass and safer playing surfaces, said Ken Eppinger, Assistant Vice President of Facilities and Campus Services, while moving the Gould Center to Kravis Lower Court and finalizing the Quantitative and Computing Lab “should create some dynamic spaces.”
All corners of campus are ready for their close-up. Here’s a look at summer projects of note from around CMC:
- Bauer South classrooms 22 through 25—new carpet, paint, light fixtures, ceiling tiles, and window coverings
- Bauer South Forum—repaint and deep clean
- Parents Field—drill and fill for better drainage and improved Bermuda grass growth
- Zinda Field—deep aeration and sand fill to recondition playing surface
- Spraying of campus oaks as preventative maintenance
- Student Apartments—new kitchen and bath cabinets, mechanical systems, lighting, vinyl flooring throughout, windows and window treatments, interior doors and locks, appliances, fixtures, paint, removal of popcorn ceiling, deck and gutter repairs, exterior paint, and refurbished roofs.
- Apartment Parking Lot—replace parking lot lighting with LED campus standards
- South Quad Towers—removal and replacement of rooftop mechanical systems (new air-cooled chillers, domestic and heating hot water boilers, pumps, tanks, piping and BMS controls)
- South Quad Towers—recondition of all three roof systems
- Kravis 3rd floor south terraces—remove and repair waterproofing/flashing/terrace terra cotta
- Kravis 3rd floor west terraces—remove existing groundcover, repair drip irrigation, recondition soil, and replace groundcover
- El Barrio Park Harwood Entrance—work with Soltis Landscape and City on design of new park entry/landscape from Harwood to Claremont Blvd.
- Athenaeum Apartments—design and repurpose north (Dean of Faculty suite) and south apartments to office space
- Roberts Pavilion—refinish wood floors to build a better wear surface
- Kravis Admission—rework Office of Admission kitchen and copy rooms, move support admins to main area, rework room 108
- Kravis Lower Court—design and rework to create the Quantitative and Computing Lab (QCL) in east two thirds and relocate Gould Center to west third of space
- Keck Science Phase 0—complete 1st floor east wing’s renovation to create new faculty offices, two biology research labs, and one physics research lab
- Campus/CB 400—continue with inspection, corrective tree pruning, and/or removal
- Painting of CIE interior
- Carpet Center Court modular decks for better walking surface