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Show mil iPif ; ."A "li'i'.t kin ft- Hv''.if i . rift'i is. T 3 M ; , ;i' . ',-, PROJECT HOME. Funding, architec- completed in April at which time the tural design" and construction on this home will be up for sale. A home at 200 South 700 West has been project is already on the designing by students at Southern Utah State boards. College. The project is slated to be College project house to be offered for sale in April this type," Mr. Munford explained. ex-plained. He added that as a result of the program, students have had an opportunity to gain experience in floor framing, wall framing, installation of roof trusses, shingling, insulating, insula-ting, hanging and finishing sheet rock, .installation of doors, and exterior and interior inter-ior painting. Mr. Munford pointed out i that the activity has generated much enthusiasm within the i Cc-nKt.-ucI ion Technology De. partment on the part of the students. As a result, a new; proposal is underway for next' year's project with students' already involved in cost plan-8 nir.g and designing. ! Visitor are welcome to inspect in-spect the project home and to-' rve the progress of con-st con-st ruction, Mr. Munford said. "A good share of the students stu-dents who are enrolled in the auxiliary courses involved in this project are not registered in the building construction courses, and as a result, we get a wider departmental involvement in-volvement in a program of Sometime in April, a fortunate for-tunate southern Utah family will have a new home that has been planned and constructed con-structed with more than the usual amount of enthusiasm. The 1,200 square foot country count-ry style residence now under construction at 200 South and 700 West in Cedar City will be completed and ready for bid about April 1, according to Lyman Ly-man Munford, project director. The home has been entirely planned and built by students In Southern Utah State College Col-lege architectural design building buil-ding construction, furnitre and cabinet making, house wiring, roof framing, and plumbing classes. The students stud-ents In fall and winter quarter quar-ter building cost estimate courseg have computed the financing. The project home was begun be-gun on Oct. 18, 1971. Some 150 students have been involved In its planning and construction construc-tion for an estimated total of 10,820 clock hours. The residence has a number of distinctive features such as split shake shingles, embossed embos-sed diamond grill glass window win-dow panes, and dark birch kitchen cabinets. Prof. Munford said that the project was developed to provide pro-vide on-the-job training and the development of salable skills for employment in the field of residential construction. |