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CBA construction plan falls behind schedule ay busie Arth Senior Reporter The workers’ tools are clanging away, but students attending classes in the College of Business Admini stration building this year will see few improvements, an official said. Bob Carpenter, campus architect, said about 20 per cent of the $6,730,900 CBA project had been completed. Carpenter said CONSTRUCTION i*1?. prp£t,1had fallen behind its original schedule because of new inspection techniques and some work that needed to be redone. The project includes a 45,000 square-foot addition to the east side of the building and vast remodeling of the original building, he said. The construction of the addition, which began in December 1991, will cost S4.3 million. Carpenter said he expected the addition to be ready for students by July 1993. New classrooms, a student lounge area, faculty offices and conference and seminar rooms will be the high lights of the addition, he said. The remodeling portion of the project will include additional light ing and a new mechanical system, and reconfiguring space in the origi nal building. Carpenter said he ex pected the remodeling to be finished by August 1994. Accommodating classes during construction is one problem that has arisen, he said. Some classes have been moved into other buildings until construction is completed. But Carpenter said he hoped both the construction work and the classes could run together smoothly this year. “We have to keep the process going,” he said. George W. Beadle Center for Genetic and Biomaterials Research Funding has come from several groups. Here is a breakdown of funding. TOTAL |_ Beadle Center officials wrap up minor details By Dionne Searcey Senior Editor Scientists planning one of the most technologically advanced research centers in Nebraska arc hammering out the minor details of the new facil ity. Donald Weeks, director of the UNL Sf Center for Bio ^ technology, said ft - construction was under way on the George W. Beadle UNL Center for Genet CONSTRUCTION K,s Biomatcri als Research. Officials arc choosing ceramic tiles for the floors and deciding whether filastic or steel should be used for aboratory benches. Scientists arc designing a greenhouse south of the center and weighing the cost of air conditioning systems. “These arc the kinds of details and questions being answered now,” Weeks said. “The major questions arc an swered.” The Beadle Center, 19th and Vine streets, will combine the University of Nebraska-Lincoln biochemistry and chemical engineering departments and the Center (or Biotechnology. Faculty and students from those departments will be able to work together on research projects and have classes in one building. In July, the NU Board of Regents and university officials approved a $ 19-million contract for construction on the center, which began July 6. The $31.3-million project received funds from several groups, Weeks said. More than $21.9 million came from federal funds, and state funds totalled $6.5 million. The university contrib uted $897,545. Theresa Klein, director of public relations and publications for the University of Nebraska Foundation, said UNL alumni and Friends of the University have committed to donat ing $2 million to help offset the cen ter’s construction costs. So far, the foundation has raised one-third of the money, she said. Weeks said budget cuts did not downsize the project, but initial plans were scaled down before they were submitted to be reviewed for funding. “Once the plans were decided upon, that’s the building we went forward with, and that’s the building we’re going to build,” he said. Weeks said the center should be finished in early fall 1994 as sched uled. 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