U.S. Bank to accommodate financial needs, banking for students, employees
Banking will get a lot simpler for many U.S. Bank members at the college on March 25. The U.S. Bancorp has partnered with the college to hold one of their on-site location banks just behind the college Starbucks on the second floor of the SSC. According to Corporate Public Relations of U.S. Bancorp Patrick Swanson, [...]
Read More →Maintenance center to be future home for faculty members
Construction on the Maintenance Center located by the Early Childhood Center is nearing completion. The building will be 35, 789 square-feet and hold 17 small and 11 large vehicles, while also making room for staff offices and extra storage. According to Facilities Planning and Development Director Bruce Schmiedl, moving into the building will help bring [...]
Read More →New chaparral statue photos from SLC!
Expect the finished project in summer 2013!
Read More →HSC becomes Gold LEED certified
The Homeland Security Education Center has been awarded a Gold LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). With a silver certification for the TEC, the HSC can now set the record for the first building to receive a Gold certification on the new 2009 version of LEED certifications. The HSC is a building [...]
Read More →Buildings magazine awards ‘ABBY’ to BIC, SSC renovations
The BIC won one of the three grand prize ABBY (America’s Best Buildings of the Year) Awards and was featured on the October 2012 cover of Buildings magazine for innovative renovations and modernization. Buildings magazine goes out to over 73,000 facilities across the nation and its’ readers look for the latest ideas on building efficiency [...]
Read More →‘Best Project in the Midwest’ Engineering group cites Homeland Education center as ‘outstanding’
While most of the notoriety that the Homeland Education Center receives is for the services and technology that are housed indoors, the building has now received an award for the architectural work. The blue glass constructing the building was used to represent the merge of technology and nature and with the many other features was [...]
Read More →Reconstruction on the SRC library sparks interest, noise from public
Reconstruction on the SRC library sparks interest, noise from public The library located in the SRC made loud noises the past week as construction began late this year. Students around campus are really excited to see what the reconstructed library will look like and what it will have for students to use as resources. “Improved [...]
Read More →Coming Soon: Chaparral Statue
COD will be building a mascot statue of a chaparral bird as a permanent gift from the students to the college on the east side of the “living room” and will be done around June during the year 2013. The chaparral was decided on August 21 and will be eight feet tall, bronze and sculpted [...]
Read More →Stairwell
Students and staff have waiting since May for the south stairwell in the BIC to be reopened with a brand new look. When the stairwell opened last Wednesday, students were already using the new tiled floor like it had never been under construction for five months. “It is a little pop and flair,” second year [...]
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