{"id":7889,"date":"2016-09-22T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:08:57","slug":"centerdedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/centerdedication\/","title":{"rendered":"K to Dedicate Fitness and Wellness Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7888\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7888\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fitness and Wellness Center at Kalamazoo College\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0029.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The $8.7 million Fitness and Wellness Center at Kalamazoo College will include a weight and cardio fitness area to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College will dedicate a new 30,000-square-foot Fitness and Wellness Center at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Academy and Catherine streets in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>The $8.7 million structure was funded entirely by donors including alumni, parents, friends of the college and several foundations, who contributed to the Campaign for Kalamazoo College, the most successful campaign in the college\u2019s history. The facility will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a weight and cardio fitness area to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff<\/li>\n<li>three flexible-use multi-purpose rooms<\/li>\n<li>two racquetball courts and a squash court<\/li>\n<li>a dance studio<\/li>\n<li>expanded lockers for the Kalamazoo College tennis teams and for general use<\/li>\n<li>an office and health assessment room for the campus fitness and wellness director<\/li>\n<li>space for the George Acker Tennis Hall of Champions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFor years to come, this building will represent energy efficiency, sustainability, educational innovation and hands-on learning, as well as health and wellness,\u201d Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of LEED certification, Kalamazoo College students Michelle Sugimoto \u201917 and Ogden Wright \u201916 provided LEED-like auditing in the design, energy and sustainability criteria that inform LEED certification. The students are members of the Kalamazoo College Climate Action Network, a student-organized group that advocates for sustainable and effective measures to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Sugimoto and Wright were chosen from about a dozen student applicants to work on the project after the college\u2019s Sustainability Committee recommended diverting the estimated $50,000 cost of formal LEED certification toward a student audit, training students in the project design, energy and sustainability criteria that inform LEED.<\/p>\n<p>The students collaborated with the project\u2019s design and construction teams \u2014 TMP Architecture and Owen, Ames, Kimball respectively \u2014 to assess factors such as water and energy efficiency, proximity to public transportation and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The actual cost of their training was a fraction of the cost of LEED certification, allowing K to invest in a 12 kilowatt solar panel array installation on campus and offset 5 percent of the new fitness center\u2019s energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a case of the administration sharing a challenge with students and saying, \u2018Join us,\u2019 \u201d Associate Vice President for Facilities Paul Manstrom said. \u201cBuildings constitute a large part of the amount of waste produced in the United States each year. Putting the money up front saves the college money in the long run, while at the same time giving these students an incredible learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, Sugimoto, Wright, Manstrom, Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell, Kalamazoo College Trustee Amy Upjohn and Director of Fitness and Wellness Jen Bailey will participate in ribbon-cutting ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College will dedicate a new 30,000-square-foot Fitness and Wellness Center at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Academy and Catherine streets in Kalamazoo. 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The facility will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a weight and cardio fitness area to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff<\/li>\n<li>three flexible-use multi-purpose rooms<\/li>\n<li>two racquetball courts and a squash court<\/li>\n<li>a dance studio<\/li>\n<li>expanded lockers for the Kalamazoo College tennis teams and for general use<\/li>\n<li>an office and health assessment room for the campus fitness and wellness director<\/li>\n<li>space for the George Acker Tennis Hall of Champions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFor years to come, this building will represent energy efficiency, sustainability, educational innovation and hands-on learning, as well as health and wellness,\u201d Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of LEED certification, Kalamazoo College students Michelle Sugimoto \u201917 and Ogden Wright \u201916 provided LEED-like auditing in the design, energy and sustainability criteria that inform LEED certification. The students are members of the Kalamazoo College Climate Action Network, a student-organized group that advocates for sustainable and effective measures to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Sugimoto and Wright were chosen from about a dozen student applicants to work on the project after the college\u2019s Sustainability Committee recommended diverting the estimated $50,000 cost of formal LEED certification toward a student audit, training students in the project design, energy and sustainability criteria that inform LEED.<\/p>\n<p>The students collaborated with the project\u2019s design and construction teams \u2014 TMP Architecture and Owen, Ames, Kimball respectively \u2014 to assess factors such as water and energy efficiency, proximity to public transportation and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The actual cost of their training was a fraction of the cost of LEED certification, allowing K to invest in a 12 kilowatt solar panel array installation on campus and offset 5 percent of the new fitness center\u2019s energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a case of the administration sharing a challenge with students and saying, \u2018Join us,\u2019 \u201d Associate Vice President for Facilities Paul Manstrom said. \u201cBuildings constitute a large part of the amount of waste produced in the United States each year. Putting the money up front saves the college money in the long run, while at the same time giving these students an incredible learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, Sugimoto, Wright, Manstrom, Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell, Kalamazoo College Trustee Amy Upjohn and Director of Fitness and Wellness Jen Bailey will participate in ribbon-cutting ceremonies.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}