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Boyd Classroom & Lab
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Site: Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
Facility: Classroom and laboratory building
Status: Design and planning underway
Purpose: Meeting space and laboratory to support teaching and research
Funding: Lloyd Tevis Boyd Deep Canyon Fund
Total Cost: $0.5 million ($250,000 still needed)
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The Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center in the Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs became a UC Riverside campus reserve in 1958, and was one of seven original NLWRS sites (precursor to the NRS) when the system was established in 1965. Yet the site still lacks adequate lab facilities and all classes must be conducted outdoors. To address this need, Reserve Director Al Muth worked with reserve users and UC administrators to develop plans for a 2,500-square-foot Laboratory and Classroom Building. The two story building will include a laboratory, four offices, a kitchenette, and restrooms on the first floor, with a classroom, library/resource center, and meeting room on the second floor.
| Where classes today must be held outdoors subject to
the whims of the weather and lacking any support for slides
or demonstrations, the new classroom will be air conditioned,
with white boards, A/V equipment, WAN/LAN connectivity,
and ADA accessibility. The resource center will hold reference
books, reprint collections, and four computer work stations
for use by students and researchers. |
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The building will be in full compliance with UC's green building
and energy conservation policies, and will be constructed
of concrete to lessen maintenance costs and resist invasion
by rodents and termites
The total cost is estimated to be $500,000. Muth has raised more than $250,000 and is continuing to seek additional money to complete the project. |
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