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Show Orem Campus to Bid Buildings Bids will be called in mid-December mid-December and January for two more principal buildings on the new Orem campus of Utah. Technical College at Provo, according to President Wilson W. Sorensen. If acceptable bids are received, said President Sorensen, construction should get underway - at least in its preliminary phases - by mid-January mid-January of 1977 with completion com-pletion planned for fall of 1978. The buildings will be the Trades Building, largest structure planned for the new campus, and a 57,000 sqwuare ft. Learning Resource Center (Library). The Trades Building, to include 113,000 square feet, will house the departments of drafting, refrigeration and air conditioning, welding, general building construction and maching shop facilities. The Learning Resources Center will house library facilities, a media center and the college's pre-technical-program related to trade and vocational learning skills. The latter will include facilities for those needing improvement in reading skils and mathematics or special work in English, including courses for the Vietnamese now learning various trades and vocations at Utah Tech at Proyo. The new buildings will bring to six the number either completed or under construction con-struction on the new campus, President Sorensen said. A mecanical building to house heating and air-conditioning air-conditioning facilities for the entire campus was the first. ' structure completed. It has been turned over to the college by the contractor and is operational. skills training facilities, in January. They will vacate temporary classroom trailers on the north parking lot of the Provo campus. Also in January, the Student Center is scheduled to open making vastly improved im-proved studentbody facilities available including a craft center, cafeteria, snack bar, games area, student newspaper facilities and studentbody offices. The Student Center has not utilized a penny of tax money, President Sorensen emphasizes. em-phasizes. Funds have come from student contributions, already available and planned for the future, plus anticpated revenues from the cafeteria, snack bar and other revenue producing facilities. Construction of the buildings now finished or nearing completing was funded from an original $8,000,000 bond issue authorized by the 1976. legislature. President Sorensen noted that with the end of the summer, final work is being completed on the landscape project made available for the campus through a $1,500,000 federal grant. This will include in-clude landscaping and parking lots adjacent to the Trades Building and Learning Resources Center as well as those already completed or under construction. The new Orem campus is on a 185 acre site acquired several years ago by the state in anticipation of the inevitable expansion of the college. Which has nearly . tripled its enrollment in the last decade, according to President Sorenson. Its now serving nearly 4,000 students in its combined day and evening schools, he said. Next came tne Auto Mechanics Building, which opened the fall quarter as the first training facilities to be used on the new campus. It houses equipment and classroom space for 290 students currently training in auto mechanics and related vehicle trades.' The diesel mechanics and auto body repair students moved from rented off-campus quarters in Provo. Some 700 students . are scheduled to move into the Business Building, which will house all business and office |