Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Eliminate deferred maintenance; • Install new highly efficient MEP systems to support programmatic requirements; • Create new connections to central campus utilities; • Provide new mechanical and building service spaces that provide for increased maintainability and access; • Seismically stabilize Friendly Hall and bring the building up to current code and University design standards; • Transform the interiors into an open and vibrant facility with simple, clean layouts for easy access and collaboration; • Create welcoming, flexible, and innovative meeting, classroom, and office spaces to support GSL’s diverse academic fields: Global Development Studies, Diplomacy, Global Health, Translation Studies, Creative Writing, Literary and Philosophical Studies, Composition in languages other than English, Food and Sustainability Studies; • Keep all personnel—faculty, staff, instructors, and graduate students, colocated in Friendly Hall, providing appropriate office spaces for each category; • Create new programmable basement space by excavating the East side crawl space; which will also mitigate permanent displacement of occupants due to space loss caused, in part, of the incorporation of modern MEP systems; • Create an intuitive, welcoming entrance, a student lounge, a large multipurpose space, three meeting rooms (~15, 20, and 25 people each), a kitchen sink on multiple floors, along with appropriate office spaces...
