Construction Projects at Craven Community College

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Godwin Memorial Library

The Godwin Memorial Library, located on the second floor of the Barker building on the New Bern Campus, is being modernized to best meet the needs of our students, faculty and staff. The library will downsize physical media and incorporate digital access and media for today’s technology needs. The redesign features an inviting environment, collaborative work areas, and a modular multi-purpose room. The modular multi-purpose room will allow students, faculty and staff to rearrange the room to best accommodate the configuration needed for a variety of uses. Tarheel Building Systems has been hired as the contractor for this project that began on May 22, 2017.

As of August 2017

The old flooring, ceiling and lights have been removed from the second floor of the Barker Building. Painting of the new area has been started. Construction on the bathrooms and international room is completed, but they are not ready for use at this time. Work on the modular multi-purpose room has begun. Currently work is in progress for a new energy efficient heating and cooling system. The new system will have a Variable Frequency Drive, meaning that if the area is not calling for cooling or heating the fan unit will slow down. This will maintain the temperature of the area while using less electricity. The area will also have Variable Air Volume boxes that can maintain different areas at different temperatures. One area may need heat and the other cooling. This will provide not only optimal room temperature, but reduce the amount of energy needed to properly heat and cool the area.

The duct work for the old heating and cooling system has been completely removed. The installation of the duct work for the new unit is being installed. New energy efficient lighting will be utilized for both the Testing Center and the Godwin Memorial Library. The old lighting fixtures consisted of 88 bulbs that will be replaced with new LED lighting fixtures. There will be 24 of these LED fixtures in the library. The outer and surrounding areas will also be upgraded to LED fixtures. This new energy efficient lighting will have a total wattage savings of 58.9% or 6,240 watts.

As of September 2017

The work on the new heating and cooling system is almost finished. The duct work is still being installed but the old air handler has been demolished and removed from the second floor. Installation of the new air handler has begun. As the heating and cooling system projects comes to a close, the new ceiling grid was able to go in. Once the duct work is complete, the ceiling tiles can be installed.

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