Marston tenants are starting to move

For the second time in seven years, the university will empty an academic building to complete a major renovation. The last employees are scheduled to move out of the College of Engineering's Marston Hall the first week in August, and interior demolition could begin by the middle of that month.

Snedecor Hall, home to the statistics department, emptied in December 2007 and reopened in May 2009. It was the university's most recent major renovation of an entire building.

In February, the state Board of Regents gave the final green light to a $24.1 million renovation of Marston. The cost will be split between university funds ($15.9 million) and private gifts ($8.2 million). Marston was completed in 1903. In the new Marston Hall, the two lower floors will be reserved for high-traffic uses such as classrooms, student services and a welcome center for visitors, prospective students and their families. The college's administrative units, including the dean's office, will move to the upper two floors.

Most Marston tenants are moving to the Memorial Union or to spaces created this month either by the opening of Sukup and Elings halls for the agricultural and biosystems engineering department, or the ISU Research Foundation's move from Lab of Mechanics to the State Avenue office building.

Project manager Kerry Dixon estimates that employees will move back to Marston during spring semester 2016. Employees will take their current phone numbers to their new locations.

Who's moving where

To assure smooth operation during the graduation and freshman orientation seasons, the college's student services staff moved in April to a second floor suite in Howe Hall previously used by the Center for Industrial Research and Service. The moves will resume next week and continue into early August.

Dixon said the construction fence will go up around Marston Hall on Aug. 11 and extend west to the water tower.

Where you'll find them

College unit

New location

Timing of relocation

Student services

2620 Howe

April

International programs

2620 Howe

April

Engineering Research Institute

391 Durham Center

June 11

Technical support

337-339 Durham Center

June 12

K-12 Outreach programs

201 Industrial Ed II

Week of
June 23*

Mechanical engineering graduate students

Lab of Mechanics 3rd floor,
Elings Hall, Black Engineering

Week of
July 8

Development

ISU Foundation building
on University Blvd.

July 10-11

Student organizations (shared space)

109 Lab of Mechanics

July 11

     -- Society of Women
         Engineers

3163 Gilman

May

College relations

Lab of Mechanics 2nd floor

July 11

Career services

Memorial Union 4th floor**

Week of
Aug. 4

     -- Interview suites

114 Industrial Ed II

July*

Dean's office

Memorial Union 4th floor**

Week of
Aug. 4

*Depends on occupancy schedule for Sukup and Elings halls
**Hotel Memorial Union's first floor of rooms