The renovations to Loeb A120 and A211 include new infrastructure – lighting, ceilings, tables, counters, sinks, fume hood, electronic classroom interactive projection – as well as new equipment and instrumentation – water de-ionizer, fridge, drying ovens, incubator, spectrophotometer, balances, laptops for instrumentation measurements, industrial dishwasher, etc.
Department Chair, Doug King presents a summary of the renovations and John Osborne, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) cuts the ceremonial ribbon
The Chair thanked the following for their contributions to these two renovation projects
- The Office of the Dean of FASS and Carleton University for support of these renovation ideas and for funding the projects
- The Department’s Renovations Working Group – Elyn Humphreys, Derek Mueller and Stephan Gruber – for their design and equipment ideas and hard work
- Natalie Pressburger for the administration and departmental management of the projects
- Elsie Clement who was instrumental in the initial stages before she retired and who came to the reception to see the fruits of her ideas
- Herb Ballantyne for management of the construction budget, timing, and contractors
- Quang Ngo for technical aid in all phases, and for tolerating boxes and boxes of materials stored in his workshops during the renovations!
- The many students who helped clearing the labs and putting everything back into the nice new spaces.