Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Construction at UNT

Walking around campus I have seen a lot of construction in the area.  A lot of construction has been taking place on and around the UNT main campus.  One of the major construction projects taking place right now is the construction of the new football stadium that is set to open in the Fall 2011 for UNT’s football season.  The new stadium is supposed to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certified and be constructed of recycled material.  The new stadium will also contain solar panels and wind turbines to help supply the stadium with electric power.  I usually see the stadium every time I am driving up to Discovery Park and it looks pretty good.  Now all we need to do is win games next year and it’ll look great!
 
Another construction project going on at UNT is the construction of the new business building near Kerr Hall.  This building is also expected to be LEED Gold Certified and able to accommodate about 8,000 students.  The new business building is set to open in the summer of 2011.  
 
The next construction project at UNT is they are fixing the pipes and replacing the old ones with new ones.  All throughout the main area of campus, big pipes are laid on the grass and big sections of the campus green are blocked off due to big holes in the ground.  Hopefully they will complete it soon because Habitat for Humanity usually host a Shack-a-Thon in the spring where various organizations build dwellings out of cardboard boxes and try to live in them.  I did it last year and it was pretty fun sleeping out there.
 
One of the final construction projects that I always see at UNT when taking the bus home from campus is a new frat house being built on frat row.  I am not sure what Frat is going to move in but from what it looks like they’ll probably be moving in the summer or fall of 2011.
 
These are all construction projects I see on a daily basis while going to and from the UNT campus.  While these construction projects will look nice in the future when they are complete, they are currently eye sores.  There are so many machines and orange construction signs it is ridiculous.  I can’t wait till they get done. 
 
Until then I’ll stay at Discovery Park where it is mostly nice and quiet.
 
Fight the Good Fight (and finish with the construction)
Ya Boy Archie Wright!