Recently Completed Projects

The Main Campus North Dining Room

The North Dining Room builds on the recent renovation of the adjacent Servery. ·Hunter College dedicated the resources necessary to create this versatile, high-visibility gathering space. ·It features a variety of modern architectural finishes, including an eating/computer bar that can accomodate laptops and glass walls providing ample natural lighting and sight lines. ·A state-of-the-art audio/visual system, wi-fi availability, outdoor seating, and comfortable modular furniture help to create a stimulating environment in which to dine, socialize or work.

3-Kilowatt Solar Panel System

In November of 2011 technicians put the finishing touches on a 3-kilowatt photovoltaic panel array that sits atop the North Building of Hunter's Main Campus. The array consists of 17 panels, each with its own micro-inverter. The system feeds some surplus electricity back into Hunter's power grid, but will be used primarily as an educational tool.

The Gebbie Room at the Brookdale Campus

The Gebbie Room is a newly-modernized multipurpose learning space. Designed for versatility and flexibility, it can be a classroom, meeting room, or seminar room. Its enhanced "smart" features include a variety of information technology hardware.

The Experimental Psychology Teaching Laboratory

The Experimental Psychology Teaching Laboratory is outfitted with newly-renovated classroom space and state-of-the-art, one-way observation labs. Experimental Psychology is a core undergraduate requirement, and more Hunter undergrads choose Experimental Psychology as a major than any other major in the Arts & Sciences division. The lab is located in the North Building.

Water Bottle Filling Stations

Hands-free water bottle filling stations are popping up all over our campuses, and they're a hit with our community! They make it easier than ever for our students, faculty and staff to use refillable containers, and they help keep tons of plastic bottles out of the municipal waste stream every year. The Office of Facilities, Planning & Management has installed these stations at the Main Campus, the Brookdale Campus, and at the Hunter College Campus Schools, and will have installed a total of 26 on our campuses in the coming months.

Thomas Hunter Hall Facade, Window and Roof Renovation

A $13,000,000 repair project on this century-old building, located in the heart of the prominent Upper East Side Historic District, was initiated in 2007 and is now complete. Years of neglect made it necessary to erect a sidewalk bridge around the base of the structure in 2005 for the protection of pedestrians. The stone work includes extensive repairs to the parapets and turrets. Approximately 340 deteriorating windows and window frames that were original to the building have been replaced with double-glazed, thermally efficient windows that conform to NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission standards. In addition, major repairs have been made to the original roof which will lead to significant heating and cooling efficiencies.

Thomas Hunter Hall Exterior Lighting

Following the $13,000,000 completion of the Thomas Hunter Hall facade, window and roof renovations, repairs have also been made to the exterior lighting of the building. The lights are currently not in use until further notice, but once displayed, the lighting will showcase the century-old building's landmarked architecture and highlight the details of the newly renovated facade.

Nutrition Lab Conversion at Brookdale

The former Nutrition Lab at the Brookdale campus has been converted to meet additional space needs for the expanding Nursing program. The program will now enjoy the use of a 1,359 square foot room, thanks to the efforts of the Hunter College Facilities staff that completed the work in-house.

Hunter College Campus Schools--New Student Lockers

 

Follett Bookstore

Construction is complete and the Hunter College bookstore has been relocated to the B1 Level of the west building. The move includes a newly designed and renovated bookstore with added features for students.

Central Air Conditioning Repair

Facilities Management and Planning has collaborated with various trades to re-establish central air conditioning to rooms 518 and 520 in the Thomas Hunter Hall building. These two classrooms were without adequate cooling for two years. This repair insures that full use will be made of these classrooms during the warmer summer months.

B3 Level Gym Renovation

The gym on the B3 level of the West Building hasundergone an important transformation, receiving a brand new, state-of-the-art floor and bleachers. The floor's underlayment is 'Nike Grind', from the company that makes Nike shoes. Nike Grind is a raw material made from recycled athletic shoes and Nike manufacturing scrap. Incorporating recycled materials in our renovation projects is in keeping with Hunter College's pledge to support and pursue sustainability-related efforts on and around our campuses.

The Autism Psychology Research Laboratory

This infancy-based research facility studies social and cognitive developments that occur in the first years of infancy through childhood. The location of the Autism Research Lab has been chosen due to its adjacency to similar, associated research laboratories. The facility features interview and testing rooms with one-way mirrors (to enable observation of child behaviors), waiting areas for parents and children, a restroom which accommodates small children and diaper-changing, a graduate student work area, and a new air conditioning system.

The Fish Psychology Research Laboratory

The Fish Psychology Research Laboratory conducts behavioral, endocrinological and neuroscientific research on various species of fish. A behavioral neuroscience research wing is also housed within this complex. Researchers there will study alcohol abuse and the molecular basis of memory in laboratory rodents.

The Bird Song Psychology Research Laboratory

This facility will be used to study mechanisms of vocal learning. Similar to early speech development in the human infant, the songbird learns to imitate complex sounds during a critical period of development. The laboratory will examine the animal behavior and dynamics of vocal learning and sound production across different brain levels, and aims to uncover the specific physiological and molecular (gene expression) brain processes that underlie song learning.

The Chemistry Research Laboratory

The Chemistry Research Laboratory houses a program that investigates the unique and potentially therapeutic properties of venom found in certain marine creatures and its possible effects on certain elements of the nervous system.

The Computer Science Research Laboratory, Conference Room and Offices

The laboratory, located in the North Building, will focus on stochastic discrete event process, simulation, theory and applications of automatic learning for optimization, queueing networks, weak convergence theory, probability theory and Markov decision processes.

ICIT Data Center HVAC Upgrade

The server room of the ICIT Data Center is the central nervous system of the College's technology infrastructure. The room that houses the servers must be kept cool and well ventilated at all times. An aging HVAC system which supplies the server room with cooled air was found to be inadequate in meeting the needs of the Data Center and has been replaced. This project was done in multiple stages, involving removal of the equipment shown below and subsequent installation of a robust, new HVAC system with increased capacity, reliability and efficiency.

Testing Center Upgrades--North Building Mezzanine

The testing Center located on the first floor of the North Building has recently experienced some new changes. Six offices have been converted to three, along with the construction of a new reception area. These new offices have enabled Hunter to repurpose space for faculty offices for the Psychology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments. This new configuration has also enabled the relocation of a Physics teaching laboratory to the mezzanine level.

Bursar Space Improvement

The Bursar's Office received a physical upgrade to its work space. ·By co-locating the Financial Aid Processing unit to the same space, the upgrade is intended to provide improved service to students.

Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI) Upgrade

 

Dormitory Rooms at the Brookdale Campus

Renovation of a series of dorm rooms is currently taking place at the Brookdale Campus. The renovation is tentatively scheduled to be complete by June.

Anthropology Room Upgrade

Facilities provided a major facelift to an Anthropology space in 700 North which was in dire need of upgrading. The space was readied for the Fall 2012 semester.

Silberman Building: Server Room Cooling & Power Redundancy

Engineers and electricians continue to work with ICIT staff in an effort to provide backup cooling capacity to the server room at the 119th Street campus to ensure uninterrupted operation of servers. This upgrade will also allow the College to take advantage of pending CUNY connectivity upgrades which will lead to enhanced data transmission.

Hunter College Campus Schools--Ron Brown Playground Repairs

The photographs below show repairs that were made to the playground. ·These repairs were an important priority of the Campus Schools administration.

Retail Food Service at The Silberman School of Social Work

Harlem Gourmet Cafe, offering Creole cuisine, is pictured below. The retail build-out of this space provides additional food alternatives for the School of Social Work community and its neighbors.