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Despite the coronavirus pandemic, many universities and university dormitories have completed live or virtual classes on time. This is the 14 best.

Robert Cassidy, editor

The green wall encloses a suitably covered residence for residents of ÅLivTucson near the University of Arizona, which operates on a mixed Covid-19 schedule until Thanksgiving, and is then arranged to be completely virtual. Photo: Nathan Oppenheim

Last spring, with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, the student housing design and construction industry, like many economic sectors in the country, faced uncertainty and uncertainty. Will the university open in autumn? Will students be allowed to return to campus? Or can all learning be done remotely? If so, will the construction of university dormitories be shelved? For months, no one has definitive answers to these questions.

In July, before booking most of the courses that start in the fall, I interviewed Mitch Dalton, the design director in New York.

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—Students living in off-campus accommodation at Core Spaces. 90% of them said they wanted to return to campus. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents said that even if their institution only provides online guidance, they will return to their off-campus apartment.

Most students (60%) expressed dissatisfaction with distance learning. Understandably, they missed the classroom lectures with professors and classmates. Isn't this the whole content of "University Experience"? Even so, four-fifths (80%) said that they would rather study remotely in a university apartment than at home. As we all know, "working from home" is not a pure blessing before Covid.

In the fall, as more than 4,000 colleges and universities across the country are struggling to open up to teach in person, completely remote or try some kind of hybrid plan, construction (considered an essential business) continues to develop rapidly throughout the student housing project . country. This is the 14 newest student dormitories on or near American university campuses.

Student housing developer Core Spaces created in collaboration with the Marshall Foundation, Up Campus and developer Tom Warne

, Adjacent to Unit 243 of the University of Arizona, a 14-story mixed-use luxury residence. This is the last piece of the reconstruction of the Main Gate Plaza, with a total area of ​​1,632,200 square feet. The development team worked with AJ Capital Partners, the parent company of the Graduate Hotel, to provide 164 rooms in the Tucson University Graduate Center, a lobby and cafe on the first floor, a rooftop pool and bar with mountain views, a fitness center, and conference facilities. Activity space. Two Sun Link tram stops serve the 605-bed ÅLivTucson. Antunovich Associates (architect), Studio K (interior designer) and Katerra (GC) form the project team of ōLivTucson. Image: Courtesy Space

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 Won the National Merit Award from the American Institute of Design and Construction. The design and construction teams of HMC Architects (executive architects, housing design architects), EYRC Architects (dining sharing architects) and Sundt Construction (GC) created an intimate environment. Two mid-level student dormitory buildings are intertwined in the eight floors of each structure, sharing social spaces, natural lighting and open-air connections. There are two families of 35 students on each floor. The dining facility can accommodate 650 people.

The Goldenberg Group commissioned Niles Bolton Associates to design this 471,000-square-foot multi-purpose development, adjacent to Temple University in North Philadelphia, for 984 students. 19 floors

Provide 28,570 square feet of convenient space, 32,331 square feet of retail store (managed by CVS Pharmacy) and 5,000 square feet of study room. This 12,62-square-foot fitness center provides space for stretching, aerobics, high-intensity interval training, cycling, strength training, strength enhancement, and active recovery. 

Only minutes away from the University of Arkansas campus,

It offers 180 fully equipped two- and four-bedroom apartments with private bedrooms (652 in total) and bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, built-in washer/dryer, 55-inch smart HD TV, 2GB Internet wired and wireless services, and Resort style pool. Students can control smart lighting, smart thermostats and smart ceiling fans in public areas through an integrated system anchored by Amazon Echo Dot. Kitchen&Associates is the architect, and Southern Building Group is the contractor of Haven Campus Communities. Photo: RMA Service HTTP://RMASERVICES.ORG/

BSB Design leads the project team of developer Stillwater Capital Investment

It is an eight-storey padded property with 391 beds located in the Northgate Entertainment District of the University City, close to Texas A&M University. The entire steel building skeleton was custom manufactured at the Prescient factory in Arvada, Colorado and shipped to the job site. BSB Design’s AIA, LEED AP project architect, and architect BIA Design’s Deena Roumeliotis, said: “The building area is developed according to the modular requirements of the steel system.” “This means that all frames must maintain a consistent centerline, so , When we manipulate the unit floor plan and load-bearing walls, we create many walls and walls in the structure..." 

JE Dunn is the designer and builder of this 166-unit, 567-bed private student apartment project. Gensler is the architect. The project is only one block away from the West Campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Lincoln Venture Capital

It is an 18-story student dormitory building with 376,521 square feet, with 191 underground parking spaces. Facilities include rooftop swimming pool, fitness center with yoga studio and rotating studio, cafe and group study room.

The University of California Davis is the largest student housing project in the United States, and it will become a zero net energy community using on-site solar energy. The large-scale zero net energy project at the University of California, Davis revolves around an extensive array of solar cells. In the first phase, the project team led by Stantec delivered the first three residential buildings (1,005 beds), a utility building and outdoor courtyards. Once completed, the project will consist of 9 four-story apartment buildings (3,300 beds in total) on 34 acres, community spaces and recreational spaces. The project is aimed at developer Michaels Organization and aims to obtain LEED Silver certification. Stantec provided architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, architectural acoustics, lighting design, environmental services, IT technology, specifications and construction management. 

Project team led by Stantec: KPFF (SE), Sandis (CE), Central Pacific Engineering (geotechnical engineering), Frontier Engineering (sustainability, energy modeling), Cummings (cost estimation), Endelman & Associates (life safety assessment) , Jensen Hughes (Life Safety/FP), Prescient (Metal Frame System), Sun Power (Photovoltaic Panel) and CBG Construction Group (GC). Photo: Johnny Stevens

652 units of net zero energy

The student dormitory won the 2020 Gold Nugget Award for the developer's American campus community. This complex with 2,351 beds uses an all-electric system to eliminate the need for natural gas. Photovoltaic arrays increase the energy efficiency of buildings. The two residential buildings surround a central parking structure and bicycle storage facilities ("hubs"). To accommodate the 20-foot vertical slope change of the 13.3 acre site, the building was heightened and a landscaped terrace was created. Development team: KTGY Architecture + Planning (Architect), CRA (Interior Design), DCSE (SE), Hunsaker (CE), TAD (Mechanical/Plumbing), Candela (Electrical), Cadmus (Sustainability), IMA (Landscape) ), and Morley Benchmark (GC).

This 720-bed student apartment is close to the Towson University campus 10 miles north of Baltimore. It is one of the four companies that Gilban Development has completed this year, namely Towson, Arizona, Oregon and Kennesaw State University Of students provided more than 3,000 beds.

Part of Towson Row, Towson Row is a $350 million, 1 million square foot multifunctional development project involving retail, hotel, residential and office. Facilities include club room, fitness center, computer lounge, study room, game room, swimming pool, petanque court and pet park. Video tour:

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Altus’s 214 apartment units are close to the Towson (Maryland) University campus and are fully equipped with private bathrooms, wooden floors and washer/dryers. Assist Gilbane development: Design Collective Inc. (architect), Bohler Engineering (MEP) and Bozzuto (GC). Photo: Darius Lee Harris

Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa), with 25,000 students, recently became the first community college in Southern California to provide campus accommodation.

The $123 million complex was funded by a public-private partnership. Although the union glass workers went on strike, Servitas (the developer) completed the project. The apartment in the four-story wooden structure is equipped with a complete kitchen, living room, bathroom, sofa, TV cabinet and coffee table. 

The 823-bed residential center has study rooms on each floor, lockers, bicycle storage, on-site laundry, parking spaces for residents only, and controlled building entrances and exits monitored by security cameras. The Servitas team of developers for the coastal community college district: Brailsford & Dunlavey (PM), HPI Architecture (architect), MVE Architects (designer), Design West Engineering, Scion Group (management) and Moss & Associates (GC). Photo: MINDY MELLENBRUCH Photography

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CA Ventures completely redesigned the foundation and retaining plate system of the building at Brinkmann Constructors (GC), a student dormitory facility near the Purdue University campus. The project has three levels or less, which will require an earth-moving system and a perimeter cast-in-place concrete basement wall. Brinkmann came up with a plan to accomplish two tasks with one system, saving 22,000 square feet of concrete walls and saving the developer 2.5 million US dollars. Other team members: Shepley Bulfinch (architect), Pierce Engineer (SE), TBIRD Design Services (CE) and Wiegmann Associates (HVAC).

Rise on Chauncey is 16 floors and is the tallest building in West Lafayette, Indiana. The 458,000-square-foot building has 283 fully-equipped luxury apartments, ranging from studios to four-bedrooms, with a total of 675 beds. Photo: MATTHEW CORSARO, LCP360 photography

Balfour Beatty (GC) and Clark Nexsen (MEP Architects) designed and built

Provide services to first- and second-year students through a public-private partnership with a non-profit university housing foundation. The two buildings in the first phase provide 1,034 of the 1,814 beds, which will complete the planned quadrilateral within the next three years as part of the main capital construction plan to support enrollment. The new housing has traditional pod-style rooms and semi-suites, public areas, meeting spaces, classrooms and student success centers. McKim and Creed performed civil engineering and landscape design.

The Student Housing Village is part of a $200 million contract for four buildings between Balfour Beatty and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which includes a The buildings damaged by the hurricane were renovated. Photo: Photography by JIM SINK

KWA Construction (GC) provided 38 student apartments on campus for Austin College, a liberal arts institution in Sherman, Texas, 65 miles north of Dallas. Three floors. 43,613 square feet

The hotel offers 133 beds in 1 to 4 bedroom residences with full kitchens, washer/dryer combinations, living areas and built-in workstations.

North Flats is executed by Demarest Architects (Architects), Dement Designs (Interior), Joint Structural Consultants (SE), Spiars Engineering (CE), Jordan & Skala Engineers (MEP), LandDesign (landscape architects) and KWA Construction (GC). Photo: CLARK CABUS Photography

Sanders Construction (GC) delivered

, This is a 132,000-square-foot first-year dormitory on the campus of the University of Denver, which will start on time in the fall quarter of 2020. This residential village has more than 250 rooms and can accommodate more than 500 students. The building is divided into six "houses" and then into 21 "pods", each pod contains more than 20 rooms and a lounge. The hall includes an additional twelve public and study spaces, a country kitchen and an outdoor gathering area, which can accommodate the entire first-year course for 1,500 students. These houses are individually metered, allowing energy use competitions among students. Rooftop solar is part of the project's successful passing of the LEED Gold Certification Program.

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Cairo-Flooding for help. By 2 pm, Raba Mokhtar picked up the 131st call of the day and went to the 24-hour hotline of the Mersal Foundation. Like most

At the other end of the line, a woman frantically described the condition of a relative, a 67-year-old man who tested positive for the virus. He had a fever of 100 degrees and could barely breathe. They first tried the hotline of the Ministry of Health to find a bed in a government hospital, but no luck.

 "So, you call them and they put him on the waiting list?" Mokhtar confirmed this, asking the woman questions and writing down the answers. "Does he need an intensive care unit?"

In a country where government medical resources may be stretched or insufficient, and most people cannot afford to be hospitalized, a little-known charity has become the lifeline of thousands of Egyptians. In the past year, especially in the most recent year

During the wave, the Mersal Foundation has contracted and paid for private hospitals, or provided oxygen cylinders for those in need.

 Mersal and its founder, Heba Rashed, became so trusted that more than 25 million people are now following her social media accounts to understand the true impact of the Egyptian pandemic. Her post has become an antidote to the widespread criticism of lack of transparency.

Today, many Egyptians insist on every assessment made by Rashed.

"The founder and CEO of the NGO @Mersalcharity, this is one of the most trusted voices on Covid19 in Egypt, and it shows that the number of cases has declined,"

, A well-known blogger tweeted on January 13. The situation is still serious, but still hopeful. "

Since the outbreak, Egypt has reported approximately 165,000 infections and 9,100 deaths. Medical experts and even government ministers

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Sissi's Government

The official accounts of the pandemic. UN officials said at least 15 people were arrested for spreading "false news" about the virus. Doctors were sentenced to prison or condemned for complaining about lack of protective equipment, and Western journalists were expelled for publishing data questioning official fees.

In January, public suspicion increased when a video spread the virus online. The video claimed that coronavirus patients in government hospitals had died due to lack of oxygen. The government denied the report, but a week later

To meet the increasing demand.

In this context, the Messal Foundation has become a trusted care oasis.

The 40-year-old Rashed has become the prognosis of the coronavirus for his army of followers. She said: "It makes me very responsible for every word I utter." "People are affected by everything I say."

Rashed grew up in the desert town of Fayoum in Jordan and Egypt and never planned to set up a charity. In university, she studied Spanish and Arabic, and later received a master's degree in linguistics and diplomas in other fields. She later served as a linguist and project manager. In her spare time, she volunteered to go to a local charity.

 Rashed said that she soon realized that she was "not passionate" about work and found that her charity work was more fulfilling. She also noticed that there are few non-profit organizations in Egypt that specialize in health issues. Therefore, she launched Mersal with two friends 5 years ago.

"It was really difficult at the beginning," Rush recalled. "We have no contact."

In the end, they found a sympathetic donor. He donated about $1,300, and they set up a charity in Rashed's apartment. They grow up slowly, mainly collecting donations on social media. They are beginning to receive the attention of some larger donors.

According to Rashed, the foundation now has four offices in Cairo and one office in the northern city of Alexandria, with approximately 200 employees. She often gets hooked on her phone like IV, and energetically answers dozens of calls every day as a teenager.

On a recent afternoon, Rashed was sitting in a foundation office on a quiet tree-lined street in Cairo’s affluent Maadi enclave, sitting in a large multi-storey house with green doors . In the reception area, some people are seeking financial assistance to solve various medical diseases.

The nerve center is a small room with eight tables. Employees take turns to answer hotline calls around the clock. Especially in the past few weeks, I have been busy with coronavirus 60 to 70 times a day on average.

Rashed said: "In terms of infection intensity, the second wave of viruses is more vicious than the first wave." "The number of infections is greater than the previous wave. There are more symptoms."

She was infected. More than half of her 100 employees are in the office, so she had to implement a large-scale quarantine.

Rush said, "This makes our job very difficult."

Nevertheless, the foundation is still operating.

A 67-year-old man with breathing difficulties is a typical case. Although he uses a tank, his oxygen content is extremely low. He also suffers from diabetes and heart disease, which exacerbated the impact of the coronavirus.

The employee who answered the call, Mokhtar, asked the man's relatives to send a complete medical report, an X-ray of his lungs and any blood tests. Mokhtar gave her a WhatsApp number.

Mokhtar said: "We will bring them to the medical department, and we will make your bed when we are free." "Peace be with you."

The employee said that it usually takes several hours to find a bed, but it may last a day or two. In the early wave of summer, few private hospitals accepted COVID-19 patients, and government hospitals were not well prepared, resulting in a severe shortage of beds.

Now, the foundation has signed contracts with more than 30 private hospitals. In some cases, patients who need help can pay part or all of the cost. However, in most cases, the charity pays up to $1,300 per day for hospital beds in the intensive care unit, most of which is obtained through online donations. In many cases, hospital beds can eventually be used in government hospitals, allowing the foundation to save money for the most needed cases.

Rashid said: "The government has prepared more hospitals to treat the virus, and the private sector has begun to deal with it."

Magdy Eissa, the medical director of the foundation, said that nearly 90% of patients come from the urban area. When symptoms become unbearable, they usually contact the foundation. Since December, the charity has also helped 22 infected refugees, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa.

The foundation’s Facebook page is full of thank-you letters from patients and their relatives urging people to donate. There are also burning accounts of the damage caused by the virus.

Hossam Elagamy recounted his family's efforts last year to save an aging, diabetic relative who was infected by a virus that had become ill and began to vomit. The ambulance arrived three hours later, but the medical staff refused to transport the person because he had not been tested for coronavirus. Finally, an hour later, another ambulance came to the hospital and took him to the hospital.

At the hospital, staff refused to give him an intensive care unit bed, saying that they were not equipped to treat covid-19 patients. An hour later, an ambulance took him to another hospital. It is also full.

"We called people we know who could help, but in vain," Elragami wrote.

He finally went online to find a hospital option. He found a woman praising the Mersal Foundation's efforts on Facebook. Elagamy called the hotline and was asked to send the medical treatment of his relatives

report.

He wrote that after fifteen minutes, the Foundation found the bed. But the condition of his relatives deteriorated in the institution. Elagamy said that he later died.

"May God eliminate this crisis," Elragemi wrote. "May God end this epidemic."

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