Student housing in the time of COVID-19

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Despite the coronavirus pandemic, many universities and university dormitories have completed live or virtual classes on time. This is the 14 best.

Robert Cassidy, editor

The green wall encloses a suitably covered residence for residents of ÅLivTucson near the University of Arizona, which operates on a mixed Covid-19 schedule until Thanksgiving, and is then arranged to be completely virtual. Photo: Nathan Oppenheim

Last spring, with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, the student housing design and construction industry, like many economic sectors in the country, faced uncertainty and uncertainty. Will the university open in autumn? Will students be allowed to return to campus? Or can all learning be done remotely? If so, will the construction of university dormitories be shelved? For months, no one has definitive answers to these questions.

In July, before booking most of the courses that start in the fall, I interviewed Mitch Dalton, the design director in New York.

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—Students living in off-campus accommodation at Core Spaces. 90% of them said they wanted to return to campus. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents said that even if their institution only provides online guidance, they will return to their off-campus apartment.

Most students (60%) expressed dissatisfaction with distance learning. Understandably, they missed the classroom lectures with professors and classmates. Isn't this the whole content of "University Experience"? Even so, four-fifths (80%) said that they would rather study remotely in a university apartment than at home. As we all know, "working from home" is not a pure blessing before Covid.

In the fall, as more than 4,000 colleges and universities across the country are struggling to open up to teach in person, completely remote or try some kind of hybrid plan, construction (considered an essential business) continues to develop rapidly throughout the student housing project . country. This is the 14 newest student dormitories on or near American university campuses.

Student housing developer Core Spaces created in collaboration with the Marshall Foundation, Up Campus and developer Tom Warne

, Adjacent to Unit 243 of the University of Arizona, a 14-story mixed-use luxury residence. This is the last piece of the reconstruction of the Main Gate Plaza, with a total area of ​​1,632,200 square feet. The development team worked with AJ Capital Partners, the parent company of the Graduate Hotel, to provide 164 rooms in the Tucson University Graduate Center, a lobby and cafe on the first floor, a rooftop pool and bar with mountain views, a fitness center, and conference facilities. Activity space. Two Sun Link tram stops serve the 605-bed ÅLivTucson. Antunovich Associates (architect), Studio K (interior designer) and Katerra (GC) form the project team of ōLivTucson. Image: Courtesy Space

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 Won the National Merit Award from the American Institute of Design and Construction. The design and construction teams of HMC Architects (executive architects, housing design architects), EYRC Architects (dining sharing architects) and Sundt Construction (GC) created an intimate environment. Two mid-level student dormitory buildings are intertwined in the eight floors of each structure, sharing social spaces, natural lighting and open-air connections. There are two families of 35 students on each floor. The dining facility can accommodate 650 people.

The Goldenberg Group commissioned Niles Bolton Associates to design this 471,000-square-foot multi-purpose development, adjacent to Temple University in North Philadelphia, for 984 students. 19 floors

Provide 28,570 square feet of convenient space, 32,331 square feet of retail store (managed by CVS Pharmacy) and 5,000 square feet of study room. This 12,62-square-foot fitness center provides space for stretching, aerobics, high-intensity interval training, cycling, strength training, strength enhancement, and active recovery. 

Only minutes away from the University of Arkansas campus,

It offers 180 fully equipped two- and four-bedroom apartments with private bedrooms (652 in total) and bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, built-in washer/dryer, 55-inch smart HD TV, 2GB Internet wired and wireless services, and Resort style pool. Students can control smart lighting, smart thermostats and smart ceiling fans in public areas through an integrated system anchored by Amazon Echo Dot. Kitchen&Associates is the architect, and Southern Building Group is the contractor of Haven Campus Communities. Photo: RMA Service HTTP://RMASERVICES.ORG/

BSB Design leads the project team of developer Stillwater Capital Investment

It is an eight-storey padded property with 391 beds located in the Northgate Entertainment District of the University City, close to Texas A&M University. The entire steel building skeleton was custom manufactured at the Prescient factory in Arvada, Colorado and shipped to the job site. BSB Design’s AIA, LEED AP project architect, and architect BIA Design’s Deena Roumeliotis, said: “The building area is developed according to the modular requirements of the steel system.” “This means that all frames must maintain a consistent centerline, so , When we manipulate the unit floor plan and load-bearing walls, we create many walls and walls in the structure..." 

JE Dunn is the designer and builder of this 166-unit, 567-bed private student apartment project. Gensler is the architect. The project is only one block away from the West Campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Lincoln Venture Capital

It is an 18-story student dormitory building with 376,521 square feet, with 191 underground parking spaces. Facilities include rooftop swimming pool, fitness center with yoga studio and rotating studio, cafe and group study room.

The University of California Davis is the largest student housing project in the United States, and it will become a zero net energy community using on-site solar energy. The large-scale zero net energy project at the University of California, Davis revolves around an extensive array of solar cells. In the first phase, the project team led by Stantec delivered the first three residential buildings (1,005 beds), a utility building and outdoor courtyards. Once completed, the project will consist of 9 four-story apartment buildings (3,300 beds in total) on 34 acres, community spaces and recreational spaces. The project is aimed at developer Michaels Organization and aims to obtain LEED Silver certification. Stantec provided architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, architectural acoustics, lighting design, environmental services, IT technology, specifications and construction management. 

Project team led by Stantec: KPFF (SE), Sandis (CE), Central Pacific Engineering (geotechnical engineering), Frontier Engineering (sustainability, energy modeling), Cummings (cost estimation), Endelman & Associates (life safety assessment) , Jensen Hughes (Life Safety/FP), Prescient (Metal Frame System), Sun Power (Photovoltaic Panel) and CBG Construction Group (GC). Photo: Johnny Stevens

652 units of net zero energy

The student dormitory won the 2020 Gold Nugget Award for the developer's American campus community. This complex with 2,351 beds uses an all-electric system to eliminate the need for natural gas. Photovoltaic arrays increase the energy efficiency of buildings. The two residential buildings surround a central parking structure and bicycle storage facilities ("hubs"). To accommodate the 20-foot vertical slope change of the 13.3 acre site, the building was heightened and a landscaped terrace was created. Development team: KTGY Architecture + Planning (Architect), CRA (Interior Design), DCSE (SE), Hunsaker (CE), TAD (Mechanical/Plumbing), Candela (Electrical), Cadmus (Sustainability), IMA (Landscape) ), and Morley Benchmark (GC).

This 720-bed student apartment is close to the Towson University campus 10 miles north of Baltimore. It is one of the four companies that Gilban Development has completed this year, namely Towson, Arizona, Oregon and Kennesaw State University Of students provided more than 3,000 beds.

Part of Towson Row, Towson Row is a $350 million, 1 million square foot multifunctional development project involving retail, hotel, residential and office. Facilities include club room, fitness center, computer lounge, study room, game room, swimming pool, petanque court and pet park. Video tour:

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Altus’s 214 apartment units are close to the Towson (Maryland) University campus and are fully equipped with private bathrooms, wooden floors and washer/dryers. Assist Gilbane development: Design Collective Inc. (architect), Bohler Engineering (MEP) and Bozzuto (GC). Photo: Darius Lee Harris

Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa), with 25,000 students, recently became the first community college in Southern California to provide campus accommodation.

The $123 million complex was funded by a public-private partnership. Although the union glass workers went on strike, Servitas (the developer) completed the project. The apartment in the four-story wooden structure is equipped with a complete kitchen, living room, bathroom, sofa, TV cabinet and coffee table. 

The 823-bed residential center has study rooms on each floor, lockers, bicycle storage, on-site laundry, parking spaces for residents only, and controlled building entrances and exits monitored by security cameras. The Servitas team of developers for the coastal community college district: Brailsford & Dunlavey (PM), HPI Architecture (architect), MVE Architects (designer), Design West Engineering, Scion Group (management) and Moss & Associates (GC). Photo: MINDY MELLENBRUCH Photography

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CA Ventures completely redesigned the foundation and retaining plate system of the building at Brinkmann Constructors (GC), a student dormitory facility near the Purdue University campus. The project has three levels or less, which will require an earth-moving system and a perimeter cast-in-place concrete basement wall. Brinkmann came up with a plan to accomplish two tasks with one system, saving 22,000 square feet of concrete walls and saving the developer 2.5 million US dollars. Other team members: Shepley Bulfinch (architect), Pierce Engineer (SE), TBIRD Design Services (CE) and Wiegmann Associates (HVAC).

Rise on Chauncey is 16 floors and is the tallest building in West Lafayette, Indiana. The 458,000-square-foot building has 283 fully-equipped luxury apartments, ranging from studios to four-bedrooms, with a total of 675 beds. Photo: MATTHEW CORSARO, LCP360 photography

Balfour Beatty (GC) and Clark Nexsen (MEP Architects) designed and built

Provide services to first- and second-year students through a public-private partnership with a non-profit university housing foundation. The two buildings in the first phase provide 1,034 of the 1,814 beds, which will complete the planned quadrilateral within the next three years as part of the main capital construction plan to support enrollment. The new housing has traditional pod-style rooms and semi-suites, public areas, meeting spaces, classrooms and student success centers. McKim and Creed performed civil engineering and landscape design.

The Student Housing Village is part of a $200 million contract for four buildings between Balfour Beatty and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which includes a The buildings damaged by the hurricane were renovated. Photo: Photography by JIM SINK

KWA Construction (GC) provided 38 student apartments on campus for Austin College, a liberal arts institution in Sherman, Texas, 65 miles north of Dallas. Three floors. 43,613 square feet

The hotel offers 133 beds in 1 to 4 bedroom residences with full kitchens, washer/dryer combinations, living areas and built-in workstations.

North Flats is executed by Demarest Architects (Architects), Dement Designs (Interior), Joint Structural Consultants (SE), Spiars Engineering (CE), Jordan & Skala Engineers (MEP), LandDesign (landscape architects) and KWA Construction (GC). Photo: CLARK CABUS Photography

Sanders Construction (GC) delivered

, This is a 132,000-square-foot first-year dormitory on the campus of the University of Denver, which will start on time in the fall quarter of 2020. This residential village has more than 250 rooms and can accommodate more than 500 students. The building is divided into six "houses" and then into 21 "pods", each pod contains more than 20 rooms and a lounge. The hall includes an additional twelve public and study spaces, a country kitchen and an outdoor gathering area, which can accommodate the entire first-year course for 1,500 students. These houses are individually metered, allowing energy use competitions among students. Rooftop solar is part of the project's successful passing of the LEED Gold Certification Program.

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