Along with shorter lines and hotter temperatures, ASU students have come to expect a certain amount of construction around campus during the summer.
This summer, however, there have been even more bulldozers and caution tape, a direct result of President Michael Crow's "One University in Many Places" initiatives, said Vance Linden, associate director of Capital Programs.
"The last time there was a peak like this was in the late '80s. And it will stay like this for at least two or three years," Linden said.
All of the major projects on campus, including Phase I of the Arizona Biodesign Institute, Parking Structure 7, ASU Foundation Headquar-ters and Adelphi II Commons, are on time and will be done on each scheduled completion date, Linden said.
"There is a lot going on, but it's all going very well," Linden said.
The Arizona Biodesign Institute Phase I is scheduled for completion in September and will be the cornerstone of Crow's drive for ASU to become a major research university. Linden said Phase II will be complete in August 2005, and they hope Phases III and IV will go through soon, but there are no dates set yet.
Linden said Terrace and Tyler streets are closed and will not open until the start of the fall semester because of work on the Biodesign Institute.
The new ASU Foundation building, on the corner of University Drive and College Avenue, is getting closer to its completion date in January. At an estimated cost of more than $43 million, the building will be the headquarters of the ASU Foundation -- an independent non-profit group that distributes donations and funds given to ASU.
A four-level, 800-stall parking garage is also being built north of the site, said Jim Sayre, program coordinator for Parking and Transit Services.
Parking Structure 7 will feature about 1,500 new spaces and is scheduled for completion in August.
Adelphi II Commons, the second of two Greek Life mass-housing units, will be open for move-in on Aug. 15, Adelphi Commons Director Mel Raab said.
The building is split into six clusters, five of which have already been assigned to fraternity chapters of Delta Chi, Fiji, Kappa Sigma, Kappa Alpha and Theta Chi.
However, Raab said "they aren't filling all the spaces."
"Sorority women and all ASU students are eligible to live here," he added. "With [Residential Life] full, if anyone is still interested in living on campus, we still have space."
Besides the major projects, construction teams are working on a variety of maintenance and remodeling around campus, and more big projects are scheduled for the coming months.
The University Archives building, which used to be the old president's house, will undergo a restoration to create a creative writing facility that will be started in January 2005.
South campus also faces an overhaul, with the McAllister Academic Village to commence work later this year on what is now Lot 40, Linden said. Phase I of that project will add 1,928 beds, as well as academic space.
Residence hall Palo Verde Main's cafeteria is also being remodeled.
Arizona Public Service Energy Systems will start building a new plant at McAllister Avenue and Lemon Street in the next 30 days to provide additional heating, emergency power, chilled water and steam for ASU.
ASU construction inspector Frank Gallagher agreed that the summer construction is going well.
"We're splitting at the seams, and there seems to be more than usual," he said, due to Crow's vision of a Research One University.
As well as the projects at ASU Main, ASU East is also experiencing more construction than usual, including a new student union and new agribusiness and research centers, Gallagher said.
Reach the reporter at annemarie.moody@asu.edu.
