"Get out Green" is set to start

"Get out Green" is a program developed and promoted by Residence Life as a pilot this year to try and save room carpets that would otherwise end up at the landfill instead end up in the recycling stream. It is a pilot this year in Dickinson Complex, James Smith, Thomas McKean, and Independence Halls. Residents will be encouraged to leave their used room carpets in designated areas to be picked up at the end of next week and taken to a recycling dumpster off campus where they will go to Georgia to be recycled in a plant. Facilities will be helping by getting the carpets to the recycling bin. Your help is needed to fill up the room pictured above in Independence with your used carpets. Look for information to be posted around the affected buildings giving you info on where to place your carpet to be recycled. Not only will this be great for enviroinment, but it will also save us money for tonnage going to the landfill.

Carpet completed in Smyth Hall

Approximately a year and a half ago a program of carpet replacement was begun in Smyth Hall. It started with the main lounge and then the hallways and finished up just last week with the lounges in the basement and on the second floor. This summer carpet will be replaced in the hallways of Squire and Sussex, which were last done during the Mall Project in the late 90's. Our vendor, Tri-State Carpet, takes the old carpet back to a reclamation dumpster in Wilmington where it is shipped down to Gerogia for recycling. The photo shows the newly carpeted TV/study lounge in the basement of Smyth.

Earth Day should be every day in your "crib"

Today our residence hall furniture participated in an Earth Day celebration in the Trabant Multi-Purpose Room. The display was put together by Residence Life and was entitled the "Green Crib," and included items available at the bookstore that can help "green" your room. The most important action you can take in your residence hall room to celebrate Earth Day doesn't cost anything...just turn off lights when possible and anything plugged into an outlet that you aren't using.

UGA floors to finally "disappear"

This summer a hallway carpet replacement project will transform the three former University Guest Apartment floors on 16-14 back to the appearence of the rest of the floors of the West Tower. The University Guest Apartment floors were created in the mid-1990's as a way to offer a comfortable and convinent apartment style hotel experience to guests traveling to the University. Housing transformed the traditional Christiana Apartments to Guest Apartments by replacing the standard UD dorm furniture with "hotel" furniture. The planning for and subsequent building of the Marriott Courtyard Hotel at Laird Campus meant that the University Guest Apartments were no longer needed and the apartments were transitioned back to regular student use. However, the hallways were never transformed back to the typical appearence of a West Tower floor. The carpet lasted for more than the standard life cycle of 7-10 years so in fact beat the average wear expected in a residence hall prior to replacement. The photos show the red color scheme of the previous UGA floors in the bottom photo, compared to the blue color scheme of the current 13th floor of West Tower in the top photo.

New carpeting in the Commons

Just before Spring Break the Dickinson A/B, Dickinson C/D and Dickinson E/F Commons Lounges received new carpeting. In addition to the new flooring, we are in the process of reupholstering all the furniture pieces in each of these lounges.

Main lounge made new again in Brown Hall

In 1997, Brown Hall was one of the first dorms re-modeled in the large scale "Mall Project," that hit 10 residence halls on North and South Central Campus a little over 10 years ago. In the Mall Project, the buildings were gutted down to the exterior walls and new electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems were installed to replace the 40-50 year old original utilities. As a result there were public areas that had furniture re-upholstered rather than replaced with new to save some money in the overall budget. Now we are going through and replacing much of the older furniture with brand new pices, as in this lounge in Brown Hall. Other buildings that have received new pieces in the last two years include the main lounge in Sussex and the study and TV lounges in Sypherd.

End of an era...Gilbert Complex to disappear into history.

This summer, Gilbert Complex will be demolished to eventually make way for new dorms down the road. The six buildings were completed in the early sixties and have hosted thousands of UD students in more than 40 years of service. Gilbert's distinctive design features included a hallway that split off into two smaller hallways to accomodate the largest number of singles available for residents of East Campus. The Complex took it's name from a Past President of Newark College in the nineteenth century, later to become UD. This fall only three of the six buildings were occupied. In this picture from January, American Van Lines personnel remove desks and beds from Gilbert E for the last time.