Housing Fair A Huge Success!

Yesterday at the Trabant University Center Multi Purpose Room Housing Assignment Services hosted the Housing Fair for 2011.  At the Facilities table, pictured above, we had a slide show of buildings where renos have occurred, and we sponsored a gift card "giveaway" contest for giving your opinions about study and lounge space in the residence halls.  The day allowed current residents to find out info about where they would like to live next year and students ready to pick their assignment had the ability to sign up right there at the Fair.  Thanks very much to all the students that stopped by our table and gave us valuable opinions that we can consider for future upgrades and or renovation projects.

Adding Lighting Control to Dickinson Lounges...Phase I

Prior to the Holidays, lighting controls were added to the lounges in Dickinson A so that lights would automatically turn off late at night when everyone was sleeping and no one was using the floor lounge.  Previously the lights would continue to burn on without anyone inside, unless someone manually turned off the lights before exiting the lounge.  This "Watt Stopper" technology saves energy by sensing use or non-use of the lounge in a way similar to the basement laundry rooms.  If Phase I is completely successful, we'll go ahead and outfit the rest of the Complex lounges with the same units to maximize the energy savings.  In the middle of the photo you can see the new control unit to the left of the doorway.

Video Blog on New East Campus Residence Halls

Hi, I’m Mark Mankin, Coordinator for Facilities for the Residence Hall system at the University of Delaware with this week’s video blog.  If you aren’t familiar with where I am standing, I am directly in front of where the six building Gilbert Complex stood until about a year and a half ago when it was demolished.  The demolition was to make way for a brand new Complex of buildings that will begin rising out of the ground this summer with the first new building going up right behind where I am standing.  When everything is complete in the summer of 2017, the new set of buildings will replace the current West Campus Rodney and Dickinson Complexes.    In addition, the Harrington Complex to our left will be completely renovated beginning in the summer of 2013.  Although the new buildings will be similar to Harrington in that they will have double loaded corridors, gang bathrooms, and be designed primarily for Freshman students; they will include many of the popular features of the relatively new halls up on Laird Campus that feature generously sized rooms with air conditioning, adequate electrical circuits for today’s college student, and floor lounges for social and studying space.   Until next time this is Mark signing off from UD’s East Campus.