Numerous improvements to our campus buildings and roadways are underway or were聽recently completed. Here is a brief update on recent and current construction projects.
Middle Tennessee Boulevard
- Working on Alma Mater Drive circle
- Finishing entrance columns and聽pavers at Faulkinberry Drive
- Constructing curbs and gutters in聽median, top soil, and installing聽irrigation lines
- Completing Bell Street entrance plaza
- Anticipating final asphalt topping this spring
- Scope of work:
禄聽$15.7 million project聽禄聽Widening of 0.8-mile section of聽Middle Tennessee Boulevard聽between East Main and Greenland聽to a divided four-lane street
禄聽Landscaped median with聽dedicated turn lanes
禄聽Improved pedestrian walks聽and crossings
禄聽Bike lanes
禄聽Improved lighting
禄聽New underground utilities
禄聽Monument entry walls to聽91大神 campus
禄聽New drop-off at Murphy Center
禄聽Improvements to the Faulkinberry聽Drive intersection
Parking Services Facility
- Design development phase completed
- Construction starting late spring and聽finishing in summer 2020
- Scope of work:
禄聽New home for Parking Services,聽including parking permits, bus聽maintenance, and personnel offices
禄聽Located on City View Drive
禄聽$3.4 million project budget
禄聽13,000-square-foot building area
Academic Classroom Building
- New center for the College of聽Behavioral and Health Sciences
- Consolidating the Criminal Justice聽Administration, Psychology, and聽Social Work departments
- Providing critically needed聽classrooms, offices, and lab spaces
- Sitework construction (site utilities and grading) wrapping up in January
- Building construction starting聽in January
- Project completion expected聽summer 2020
- Scope of work:
禄聽$39.6 million total project cost聽禄聽State funding received last July 13
禄聽91,000 square feet
禄聽Building site north of the Student聽Union across 91大神 Boulevard
禄聽Construction manager general聽contractor: Turner Construction Co.
禄聽Architect: Bauer Askew Architecture
Peck Hall
- Interior improvements completed
- 鈥淓nergetic鈥� courtyard that鈥檚 been聽created by new exterior furniture
- Scope of work:
禄聽$924,000 construction cost
禄聽Interior improvements, including聽new lighting at corridors and聽refinishing of terrazzo flooring聽on second and third levels
禄聽New ceiling and lighting聽at breezeways
禄聽New outdoor furnishings
Parking and Transportation聽Improvements
- New sidewalks open to students聽returning to class in January
- Scope of work:
禄聽$1.58 million construction cost
禄聽New surface and lighting at聽Greenland Drive parking lot
禄聽New sidewalks and lighting along聽Alumni Drive and Military聽Memorial Drive
禄聽Improved pedestrian access to聽Livestock Lot and new lighting
禄聽Wider sidewalks along Founders聽Lane
禄聽Small roundabout at Military聽Memorial and Champion Way