The fitness room will also provide cubbies and coat hooks for peoples' belongings. The lobby will be designed to accommodate a control desk for the building and fitness room. With its strategic location at the campus visitor's entrance, and given the importance of sports in recruiting students, we expect to launch Admissions tours from this area. Campus visits continue to grow and, during prime visiting periods, the Admissions building is too small to launch campus tours. Though this is a big glass box, the finishes are to be highly durable for heavy use.
Walls are epoxy painted concrete block instead of sheetrock.
Floors in the activity rooms are hardwood. The floor of the Fitness Room is a polyurethane sports surface product specifically for this use. The second floor slab includes and acoustic deck to temper the sound in the Fitness Room and insulate the activity rooms from this fairly noisy area. The fitness room floor is set up with a grid of power and data connections for the various cardio equipment. Much of it is now computer operated and linked for personal fitness training programs.