Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons | Architects & Engineers PA
In the Press
In the Press
Top 5 Projects - Mississippi
#5 - University of Mississippi Residential Colleges
McGraw Hill Construction / July 2009
Oxford, MS — This Residential College project at the University of Mississippi at Oxford needed to be finished by the start of the 2009 fall semester.
"It's a 17-month project," says Casey Rogers project manager for Harrell Contracting Group of Jackson, Miss. "It was a six-day schedule and we worked 24-hours a day for two months with two crews." The extra work of the 200 construction workers at peak times paid off. The $30 million project is expected to be finished on time, he says.
The Residential College houses freshmen to seniors who will live there throughout their stay at the university. The five-floor, 150,000-sq-ft building will have classrooms, cafeterias and a library, Rogers says. It also features a teaching kitchen, a music practice room and theater facilities.
The building will house 466 students from all majors. Students must maintain a 2.5 grade point average to remain in the Residential College. The college was modeled after those at British universities in Oxford and Cambridge.
Both blacks and whites, musicians and athletes, residents and nonresidents, as well as students pursuing various academic studies, all will reside, study and socialize in harmony, the university says in a news release. Cost: $30 million
Key Players
- Start/Complete: March 2008/August 2009
- Owner: University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
- Contractor: Harrell Contracting Group LLC, Jackson, MS
- Architects: Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons of Jackson, MS, Eley Associates/Architects PA, Jackson, MS