January 21, 1
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staff photo by Irene Mees
fie engineering research center being built next to Zachry Engineering Center.
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buildings planned
or engineering, science
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by Monica M. Foley
■ Battalion Reporter
he parking area behind the
louty Geosciences Building
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million geosciences annex
be complete.
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jhy in theri. :enngbuilding is being coor-
?n. ited by the Texas A&M Sys-
uclear arms Facilities Planning and Con-
luctantly pu'‘ ctl P n Department.
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ickingwithtelT Engineering Research
o iter, is underway next to
leai ms ^ Engineering Center and
■(hate range be complete by June 1983,
itinent orainiriBob Evans, director of the
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the planning and construction
department.
Construction behind Hal-
bouty began Jan. 4 on a four-
story wing that will add 59,752
square feet for laboratories, clas
srooms and offices, said Evans.
The $4 million expansion,
contracted to BFW Construc
tion from Temple, will include a
walkway connecting the two
buildings.
The Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station will move its
offices from Zachry Engineer
ing Center to the new Engineer
ing Research Center.
Dr. YV. Arthur Porter, dire
ctor of TEES, said the new En
gineering Research Center will
be dedicated completely to en
gineering research in such fields
as material research.
“It will be one of the biggest
composite material research
laboratories of any university in
the country,” Porter said.
The building also will house a
Robotics Lab, he said. Robotics is
the automating of the manufac
turing process by building
machines that can accomplish
manufacturing functions and
make decisions.
Porter said the building will
contain the TEES administra
tive offices in addition to the
laboratories as well as offices for
researchers.
Architects also are designing
an energy and physics building,
for the Spence street side of the
lot, near the Cyclotron, Evans
said.
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Battalion/Page 3
January 21, 1983
Northside halls
get generators
by Patrice Koranek
Battalion Staff
In about six months, several
residence halls on the north side
of campus will be equipped with
emergency generators which
will operate when a power out
age occurs, the director of the
Texas A&M Physical Plant De
partment said.
Joe Estill, department dire
ctor, said he didn’t know when
or where the generators would
be installed, but said they will
solve some problems for resi
dents of those halls.
When a power outage does
occur, physical plant workers
are able to tell what circuits are
out, hut they have to go out on
campus to find the location of
the failure, Estill said.
“We know what circuits feed
which buildings so we know
where the power is out, but in
order to find the exact location
of the outage, we have to go out
on campus and look,” he said.
“We take flashlights and go look
in the manholes. We can some
times tell by the smell and some
times the problem is visible be
cause we see scattered cable in
the hole.”
Once workers find the prob
lem, they have to find out what
caused the power failure. It can
be a number of things, Estill
said, such as a bad splice, a cable
failure or a bad switch.
Estill said that using a compu
ter system to track down the
location of the break in a circuit
would not be feasible because
the University would still have to
have a secondary source of pow
er to run the computer and for
the check points around the
campus. He said that the Uni
versity’s system is not spread out
enough to utilize a computer
system.
Estill said that most of the
power lines on the main campus
and those servicing the new
buildings on the west campus
are underground.
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