Housatonic Community College
HCC officials and state leaders, including Conn. governor Jodi Rell, State Department of Public Works (DPW) commissioner Raeanne Curtis, and HCC president Anita Gliniecki hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $55 million additions and renovations at HCC campus. The event took place in the former Sears Building - now named Beacon Hall.
DPM was hired to manage furniture coordination and relocations for this expansion, which included the conversion of an existing Performing Arts Center into a teaching theater, the renovation of 146,000 s/f in the adjacent Beacon Hall and new construction of 21,081 s/f of additional space.
"We congratulate HCC officials, faculty and students of the College on the completion of this exciting project," said Bob Keeley, president of DPM. "We're very pleased to have completed this extensive project in time for HCC to open their doors to students for the start of the fall semester.
DPM managed the relocation and the coordination of FF&E to the new space, totaling 174,500 s/f, which included the theater, an events center, classrooms computer, foreign language and ESL labs. Beacon Hall now houses a central lobby, bookstore, satellite cafeteria, and large conference and lecture rooms. A feature of the new space is the provision of adequate informal student gathering and lounge areas.
About Diversified Project Management
Diversified Project Management, headquartered in Newton, Mass. with offices
in Hartford and Stamford, Conn., is an independent Owner's Representative
construction consulting company that specializes in programming, project
management, construction administration, FF&E coordination and move-planning
services for corporate, education, healthcare, manufacturing and biotech
client's construction, renovation and relocation projects. For more
information, please visit www.dpm-inc.com.
About Housatonic Community College
Located in Bridgeport, Conn., Housatonic Community College serves an
eleven-town area in Southwestern Connecticut. A member of the Connecticut
Community-Technical College system, the College was founded in 1967. In
1997, the College moved to its present site in downtown Bridgeport with a
state-of-the-art campus. Housatonic is accredited by the New England
Association of Schools and Colleges and the Board of Governors for Higher
Education of the State of Connecticut. For more information, visit
www.hctc.commnet.edu.
