Cathy Ekstrom is responsible for updating building directories. The corridor directories will be updated each summer, and new building occupants will be added throughout the year. Cathy will also distribute an in-house telephone directory to building occupants on a regular basis.
Cathy Ekstrom is also responsible for coordinating events scheduling in the Tormondsen Great Hall and other public spaces. In order to be considered for hosting in a public space, the event must either
• have an academic purpose using one or more lecture halls or classrooms in the building;
• relate to a department housed within the building; or
• be a high-level function approved by the president.
Meeting one of the above conditions does not guarantee that an event can be approved. Other factors that will be taken into consideration include the anticipated impact of the event on normal activities in the building, and the number of events scheduled within a given period.
We also work with the Course Scheduling Office to ensure that classrooms and labs are configured to meet faculty needs, and that the scheduled use of building spaces is appropriate.
Policy on Scheduling Public Spaces .pdf
Permanent or long-term wall hangings, including pictures, cork boards, file pockets, and storage units, are generally to be mounted only on painted wallboard surfaces using appropriate fasteners, not on wood or metal doors, paneling, trim, or wainscoting.
Temporary posters, notices, and the like should be affixed to one of the corridor tackboards. Although we do not encourage this, temporary notices may also be mounted on wood doors or metal doorframes using removable Scotch tape or a reusable temporary adhesive such as Blu-Tak or Tac’N’Stik. However, we ask that you please not attach signs or posters to wood doors and paneling using tacks, or to wallboard using sticky tape or adhesives, as this will damage the surface.
Within offices, occupants may hang their own lightweight pictures, etc., using standard nail-in picture hooks, or may arrange with Garry Sprigg or Cathy Ekstrom to have Technical Services or Facilities Services perform the installation.
Classrooms are provided with picture molding from which maps, charts, etc. may be hung. Garry Sprigg has the necessary hooks and wire, and will arrange installation as needed.
Corridor installations should be discussed in advance with Tim Wickland. In general, departments will have considerable latitude in what is put up on the walls in the corridors where their departmental labs and offices are located. Certain mounting standards do need to be met, and the work should in most cases be performed by Facilities Services or Technical Services.
Installations in the Tormondsen Great Hall, study lounges, generic lab and lecture hall corridors, and similar public spaces need to be approved in advance to ensure that they appropriately meet the overall needs of the building. Please speak with Tim Wickland or Cathy Ekstrom regarding any installation in a public space. Temporary exhibits will typically be authorized for the lecture hall corridor or for portable display boards in or around the Great Hall, and in some cases, it may also be permissible for posters to be attached to wall surfaces with an appropriate temporary adhesive.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall is equipped with two passenger elevators in the Great Hall and a freight elevator in the north wing. In addition, there is an elevator in the library between the first and second floors.
The west passenger elevator runs between the first and seventh (roof level) floors. The east passenger elevator runs between the first and sixth floors. The freight elevator runs between the basement and the sixth floor, but a key is required to access the basement or the sixth floor.
For reasons of personal safety and considerateness to others, as well as to preserve the appearance of the elevators, we ask that the passenger elevators be used only for the transport of people and small, lightly-loaded carts that are not moving chemicals. To met sanitary codes, food is also transported in the passenger elevators
All live animals, chemicals, liquid nitrogen, flatbed trucks, hand trucks, large carts, furniture, and other large or heavy objects are to be moved only on the freight elevator. The only exceptions to this rule are for deliveries going to the seventh floor and for occasional deliveries to the sixth floor, which may utilize the passenger elevator for these otherwise-restricted loads only for traveling between the fifth floor and the higher floor. Furniture and large objects should be padded with a moving blanket to avoid damage to the elevator interior.
If you will regularly need to transport chemicals or large loads to the sixth floor or to the basement field equipment storage area, please speak with Cathy Ekstrom, who will arrange for you to obtain a key to the freight elevator’s appropriate stop.