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Saving Water & Energy by Converting to Energy Efficient, Coin-less Laundry Equipment

After more than 50 years of pedestrian traffic and poor drainage, College Walk, the University's main public walkway, was in need of surface and sub-surface restoration to repair unevenness and cracking.  Facilities staff immediately knew that completing such a mammoth task would require the complete shut down of the main walkway on 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.  Another thing was clear - the project could not commence until after Alumni Reunion Weekend and had to be finished prior to the start of the academic year. The restoration, which would normally take six…

I am pleased to announce that Frances Huppert will join Columbia University Facilities as Associate Vice President of Capital Projects.

Columbia University has accepted the challenge posed by Mayor Bloomberg to join New York City's goal in pledging to reduce greenhouse gases 30 percent by 2017.

Excavation for the Northwest Science Building is officially underway, marking the last frontier of Columbia's Morningside campus. The building, slated to open in the fall of 2010, is one of over 20 construction projects that will kick into full gear this summer.