Name: CMU Academic Center construction advances at Beaver Island Biological Station, 2007
Start: 2007-01
End: 2007-05
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 2007-01 – 2007-05
Kind: Construction
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationconstructioninfrastructuretechnologycommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Construction of Central Michigan University’s new Academic Center at the Biological Station was reported on schedule for completion in mid-May 2007. The Beacon described a $3.8 million project with geothermal heating and cooling, a backup generator, student computing space, a 100-seat auditorium, and fiber connections to other station facilities.

Evidence limits

The report describes planned and in-progress work; it does not establish final completion, final costs, or the later operation of each facility.

Sources

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Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 2007, "CMU's new Academic Center moves Beaver Island to the Head of the Class."
Describes the $3.8 million Academic Center, construction scheduled for mid-May completion, geothermal heating, a generator, student facilities, a 100-seat auditorium, fiber connections, and related Great Lakes Research Facility and apiary work. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, February 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the construction report and photographs.
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“Article re: New CMU Buildings,” Beaver Island Forum, September 25, 2007.
A forum participant linked to a September 24 Central Michigan Life article describing the Beaver Island facility as almost complete. The archived forum post preserves the contemporaneous pointer but not the linked article text; it is supplementary evidence of public attention, not a substitute for a completion report or inspection record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “CMU Academic Center construction advances at Beaver Island Biological Station, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cmu-academic-center-construction-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2007, "CMU's new Academic Center moves Beaver Island to the Head of the Class." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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