Doug Hubley

Campus Construction Update: March 17, 2023

A feature of the Chase Hall renovation that had been a “maybe” has become a “yes” — and may also become one of the most-used attractions in Chase. It’s called the Overnook. And that name (not to be confused with a ski resort or a brand of California…

(Off-)Campus Construction Update: Feb. 15, 2023

Greening the grid: That’s how Bates characterizes its latest initiative in the effort to stay sustainable. The college is partnering with ReVision Energy, a leading solar facilities provider in Maine, to establish a photovoltaic array on more than 20…

Campus Construction Update: Jan. 19, 2023

Even though Campus Construction Update continues to scour garage sales for carbon paper and reel-to-reel audiotape, we still know progress when we see it. Take cross-laminated timber, a material that’s key to a signature feature of the current Chase…

Campus Construction Update: Oct. 27, 2022

About five months into the yearlong renovation of Chase Hall, Project Manager Kristi Mynhier feels that the undertaking has turned an important corner. The first phase of construction, Mynhier points out, was dominated by demolition and by the…

Campus Construction Update: Sept. 22, 2022

After more than a year of renovation that has redefined Dana Hall’s role in science education at Bates, the building formally reopened with a celebration on Aug. 29. “It is kind of spectacular, the transformation that has been accomplished over a…

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 11, 2022

Dana Hall’s future users are scheduled to begin moving into the building starting this coming Monday, Aug. 15. The move is one of the final milestones in a comprehensive renovation that was years in the planning and about 14 months in execution. The…

Campus Construction Update: July 14, 2022

On June 20, the Dana Hall renovation at Bates passed its inspection by the city of Lewiston, thereby earning the college a certificate of occupancy for Dana. The next administrative hurdle to hop, as we reported previously, is so-called substantial…

Campus Construction Update: June 9, 2022

“Summertime Demolition ain’t easy Hammers thumpin’ And the sawin’ is nigh” All right, so the search will go on for Campus Construction Update’s summer theme song (and our apologies go out to fans of DuBose Heyward and George and Ira Gershwin).…

Campus Construction Update: May 12, 2022

While the term “fume hood” itself doesn’t quite qualify as poetic, it’s nevertheless true that the recent installation of 18 such devices in Dana Hall sends uplifting messages about that building’s renovation. For one thing, along with much…

Campus Construction Update: April 15, 2022

The weeks leading up to Commencement have their own extraordinary excitement. It’s an electric current that tickles every campus constituency — seniors and their families, college staff who have befriended the graduates-to-be, and, of course, the…

Campus Construction Update: March 3, 2022

Chase Hall at Bates College: beloved, iconic, historic. And user-friendly? Well, probably not — thanks to unwelcoming entrances and a confounding interior layout that involves nine floor levels and multiple additions, all stitched together by a…

Campus Construction Update: Jan. 13, 2022

If every week brought the kind of excitement sparked up in late November by the hoisting of a large air-handling machine into Dana Chemistry Hall’s attic, Campus Construction Update would be incapacitated by nervous exhaustion. But these days,…

Campus Construction Update: Dec. 2, 2021

Before dawn on Monday, unseen by most members of the campus community, mechanized forces executed something like a military pincers movement at Bates. Objective: Dana Chemistry Hall. But this was no invasion. (It’s just that we’ve always wanted to…

Campus Construction Update: Nov. 4, 2021

Waxing all poetic in late September, Campus Construction Update noted that “the slow pivot from destruction to construction is beginning” in the renovation of Dana Chemistry Hall. Well, pivot completed! A little more than a month after that post, the…

Campus Construction Update: Sept. 30, 2021

The goals of a construction project tend to be functional. They’re often aesthetic, too — sometimes with poorer outcomes, but often with happy ones when, like Bates, you plan and invest your resources thoughtfully. Of course, construction projects…

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 27, 2021

After 30 months of applying to the construction of Bates’ Bonney Science Center countless tools, from pile drivers to 3D computer models, what came to hand for finishing the job — at least symbolically — was three pairs of really big scissors. With a…

Campus Construction Update: July 1, 2021

Hot Quad, summer on campus: Back of our neck getting dirty and…say, what rhymes with “campus,” anyway? Without the Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian to help with that couplet, we’ll just have to skip the tuneage and tell you, instead, about some…

Campus Construction Update: May 20, 2021

For Campus Construction Update, whose physique has been chiseled by years of lugging stepladders across campus so as to peep over construction-site fences, it’s something to celebrate when the fence comes down. So we’ve been looking forward to a…

Campus Construction Update: April 29, 2021

As construction of Bates’ Bonney Science Center nears completion, there’s a new development that’s not obvious but is highly significant: The building is now wearing its name. The first of what will be three BSC signs is on the south side, facing the…

Campus Construction Update: March 25, 2021

The city of Lewiston has granted Bates a permit allowing the college to start moving equipment and materials into the Bonney Science Center. The college will put this permit, called a limited certificate of occupancy, to work when science center…