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Planned improvements to the Main Campus in 2012 are as follows:
- Adding emergency call boxes that also include siren and voice notification systems for alerting areas of the college or the entire campus in the case of an emergency;
- Adding thumb-lock door knobs throughout the Main Campus for increasing the ability to lock instructional spaces and offices from the inside if the need arises;
- Replacing and adding exterior directional and identifying signage at entrance points, at buildings, and in parking lots and drives;
- Replacing and adding lighting pedestrian walkways; and
- Adding fencing to direct pedestrians to the street crosswalk and to campus walkways.
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| Renovations were made on the White Building, originally constructed in 1961, to include a major infrastructure upgrade, facade "facelift," and instructional
space upfit. The project was completed in June 2010. |
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 The flagship building for the Orange County Campus of Durham Technical Community College opened its doors in 2008. The two-story centerpiece building totals 40,000 square feet. The new campus building houses 22 instructional spaces, including multi-purpose rooms, computer labs and special purpose science labs, as well as flex space which could be used for vocational or trades classes. The facility also includes green building features such as "daylighting," using aluminum light shelves, photovoltaic systems, solar-assisted domestic water heating, rainwater collection and reuse, waterless urinals, and operable window vents in all classroom areas, all of which will help the building be more energy efficient and ecologically friendly. The campus has the capacity for four more buildings.
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| In August 2006, construction was completed on a $9 million, 58,500-square-foot
facility that serves as the central hub for the college's Main Campus
and which streches between Lawson and Cooper Streets. The building houses Admissions,
Registration, Financial Aid, Advising, Counseling and Student Development,
a cafeteria, bookstore, instructional and study areas, computer labs,
student government and club activity rooms, and a multi-purpose room. |
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| First built in 1969 and expanded in 1992, a second expansion and renovation
was completed in 2005 resulting in 30 percent more instructional space
for science classes. |
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