Facilities Master Plan

Rundell Hall

Building Description and Use:
Rundell Hall at Lee College is a two story, 52,274 square foot structure constructed in 1951. The building houses 18 classrooms with twenty administrative areas as well as two auditoriums, and an orchestra room. This building is on a campus with 36 other buildings, sharing the same electric and gas meters. The building is used only as post-secondary (college) school and was added on to in 1968. The Music Wing was totally renovated in 1992. Four abandoned basic science labs were renovated in 1992-1993. In 1993-94 renovation began on upstairs classrooms. Classrooms were painted, carpeted and fitted with soundproofing panels. In 1994-95 a classroom was renovated into a mathematics developmental lab under the Title III Grant.

Building Energy Use Characteristics:
The building uses electricity for lighting, cooling, air and chilling/heating water circulation, and general equipment. Steam, generated with natural gas at the College’s South Central Plant, is used for heating and domestic water heating. The building uses chilled water generated from electric power at the College’s South Central Plant for cooling (but also has some localized direct powered DX systems.)

Building Energy Uses Indices are as Follows:

Structural Characteristics:
This facility consists of one, two, and three levels. Partial basements in select areas.

The structural system consists of reinforced concrete footings and foundation walls supporting the steel reinforced concrete frame superstructure.

The floor structure at ground level is reinforced concrete slab on grade and reinforced concrete over crawl space. Upper level floors consist of reinforced concrete frame and floor, steel frame supporting metal corruform pan and concrete topping, and steel frame supporting “Steel-Tex concrete.” Floor covering consists of carpet, ceramic tile, terrazzo, V.A. tile, vinyl tile and exposed structure.

Partitions are standard for the design and occupancy for which the building was intended. They consist of stud and gypsum board, stud and plaster, masonry block, brick, glass in aluminum frame, solid plaster, clay tile, and glazed tile. Wall covering is basically paint with select areas of wood panel, ceramic tile, vinyl covering, and exposed structure.

Ceilings consist of gypsum board and paint, plaster and paint, suspended system, acoustical tile, and exposed structure.

The exterior walls consist of brick with clay tile backup, brick with concrete block backup, brick with glazed tile backup, glass curtain wall, cast stone coping, and marble facing panels.

The roof structure is poured concrete and steel frame with poured concrete, metal corruform pan and concrete topping, and "steel-tex" with lightweight concrete topping. Roof cover is a multi-ply Hickman modified bitumen system.

HVAC consists of circulating hot and chilled water supplies from central plant. System is grossly inefficient and technically incapable of adequately cooling or heating entire sections of the second floor and ground level of the building.

Moody Center. Controls are ineffective and require constant manual “tweaking.” Air handling equipment is located in this building, but it has exceeded its useful life.

Condition: Poor. Contains asbestos in various locations, mainly including floor tile and pipe insulation. Some of the HVAC problems were tackled in 1993 in conjunction with the Energy Conservation Measures project. During 1993-94 handicapped accessible restrooms were constructed on the first floor. Also, the exterior electrical switch gear and transformers were replaced during 1993-94. Renovation of classrooms continued in 1994-95. Roof repairs were completed in 1995 on the main building and in 1997 on the music wing. All carpet and stained ceiling tiles were replaced in the music wing in 1997. The second floor was abandoned as instructional space during the 2002-2003 academic year due to the unreliable HVAC system. The second floor is currently being used for storage.

Occupancy: Administrative Offices, Classrooms, and Auditoriums.

Estimated Replacement Cost: $7,000,000 without proscenium stage. $9,400,000 with proscenium stage.