Eastern’s Facilities Planning and Management is in the process of renumbering all of the rooms in academic buildings on campus, said Carol Strode, interim director for facilities planning and management.

Strode said the project, expected to be completed by fall 2001, was necessary because of the remodeling that has taken place over previous years.

“The project will be helpful for consistency in the numbering process for campus,” Strode said, in an e-mail. “…Many of the rooms (in the academic buildings) were made into suites, and letters of the alphabet became part of the identification system.”

Each room in every academic building is being renumbered based on a drawing that is prepared by Facilities Planning and Management, she said.

“The drawing and listing of the current numbers and new numbers are given to a building coordinator who in turn reviews the drawing and listing and indicates to us if there are any omissions or if any corrections are to be made,” Strode said.

Students need not worry about going to the correct room in the fall, since all of the numbers listed in the fall semester registration newspaper are correct, said Steven Shrake, architect for the Physical Plant, in a press release.

“There may be some confusion at first, but the change is quickly learned,” Strode said.

No additional funding has been allotted for the renumbering project, she said. “FPM is covering the cost of the project through our Maintenance Paint Shop,” Strode said. “Most of the material was furnished with an ADA (American Disabilities Act) project in exchange for Eastern providing labor to install the signage.”

The ADA requirements for location of signage and information necessary to be placed on the doors and the 911 requirements for identification of each room assists Facilities Planning and Management with the task of renumbering the rooms of the academic buildings on campus.

The buildings that have been completed so far include Buzzard Hall, the Life Sciences Building and Annex, Student Services Building, McAfee Gymnasium, Lantz and Ninth Street Hall, Strode said. She said workers are currently working on renumbering the Physical Science Building.