The Campus Center node will serve the new medically oriented buildings which are slated for the east campus, and also the proposed Science Research Park. We will also expand Node D, due to the continuing growth at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. We will increase the use of Node P, in the Social Sciences Building, by adding the load from several existing buildings to it. We will also use it to serve the new home of Roosevelt College, on the north end of Campus. In addition, we will remove the fire sprinklers from the nodes and replace them with an oxygen displacement type of fire suppressant, such as Inergen.
Some nodes are already so equipped.
We have several areas where conduit is full or otherwise blocked. P. Additional conduits will be placed into Node B, as a part of that expansion project. The cable trays in the Central Utilities Building are overloaded and will be augmented with new conduits. We will also make improvements to the links between east campus and west campus, which are presently separated by Interstate 5. At present all of the cables linking the two halves of the campus cross the freeway through the bridge on Voigt Drive.