New Dining Facilities & Campus Master Plan Incorporating Sustainability
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: News
By Jessica Sterrett
Rotunda Reporter
As the new dining facilities come into place, a greater aspect of sustainability within construction endeavors must be recognized. Not only has dining services been recognized for sustainability efforts, but so has Longwood's Facilities Management and Real Property Management Services. Their main focus is on improving the college environment.
Working alongside endeavors pertaining to sustainable construction are the campus police. Longwood Police Chief Bob Beach, as well as other officers, meets with Facilities Management and Real Property Management often to give input on safety and precaution issues that will best compliment the community and pedestrian atmosphere. "We lay down rules and regulations, and then we set up a thing of communication between us so that when they have some issues come up they let us know. They try to work so they give us 48 hour notice if they are going to disrupt something, so we can have enough time to set up and let the community know," said Beach.
Beach said a plan has to be in order to successfully expand and grow into an effective sustainable environment. "Every construction project has issues that come up. There's conflicts all of the time, what we have to do is we have to manage obviously, the traffic and the parking issues, but we also have to manage the safety issues and so forth," said Beach. The subdivision of Facilities Management and Real Property Management in charge of the Campus Master Plan is labeled Capital Planning. "There's just a ton of work going on, if you go back and look at the capital plan, there's an eight-year timeline that's laid out there. So it will be a particular process," said Beach. Reed "Jerry" Jerome is the Campus Master Plan coordinator with capital planning and in charge of producing the Master Plan Power Point of all construction endeavors until 2020, which was approved by the Board of Visitors (BOV) in September 2008. This Power Point can be found on the Facilities Management and Real Property Management webpage link under 'Campus Master Plan.'
Rotunda Reporter
As the new dining facilities come into place, a greater aspect of sustainability within construction endeavors must be recognized. Not only has dining services been recognized for sustainability efforts, but so has Longwood's Facilities Management and Real Property Management Services. Their main focus is on improving the college environment.
Working alongside endeavors pertaining to sustainable construction are the campus police. Longwood Police Chief Bob Beach, as well as other officers, meets with Facilities Management and Real Property Management often to give input on safety and precaution issues that will best compliment the community and pedestrian atmosphere. "We lay down rules and regulations, and then we set up a thing of communication between us so that when they have some issues come up they let us know. They try to work so they give us 48 hour notice if they are going to disrupt something, so we can have enough time to set up and let the community know," said Beach.
Beach said a plan has to be in order to successfully expand and grow into an effective sustainable environment. "Every construction project has issues that come up. There's conflicts all of the time, what we have to do is we have to manage obviously, the traffic and the parking issues, but we also have to manage the safety issues and so forth," said Beach. The subdivision of Facilities Management and Real Property Management in charge of the Campus Master Plan is labeled Capital Planning. "There's just a ton of work going on, if you go back and look at the capital plan, there's an eight-year timeline that's laid out there. So it will be a particular process," said Beach. Reed "Jerry" Jerome is the Campus Master Plan coordinator with capital planning and in charge of producing the Master Plan Power Point of all construction endeavors until 2020, which was approved by the Board of Visitors (BOV) in September 2008. This Power Point can be found on the Facilities Management and Real Property Management webpage link under 'Campus Master Plan.'
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