Elizabeth Waters Hall

Residence Hall Construction Schedule:
Phase One: May 2013 - August 2013
Phase Two: May 2014 - August 2014
Food Service Construction Schedule: May 2013 - November 2013

Opened in 1940, Elizabeth Waters is the second oldest University Housing dining location. Over the past 67 years, the seating areas have been refurbished twice and an atrium was added to provide additional seating. Except for the atrium addition, the Elizabeth Waters food service occupies the same space today as it did 67 years ago.

Elizabeth Waters offers the most attractive dining room seating areas. However, the servery and kitchen areas are cramped, poorly designed and inadequately vented. Thus, the major goal in the Elizabeth Waters renovations is to provide adequate servery and kitchen space within the existing areas, utilizing a marketplace stations/platforms concept. The design will allow maximum flexibility to frequently change menus, concepts and offerings to keep up with the rapidly changing tastes and expectations of student customers.

Another goal that will be accomplished by the renovations is to allow use of the dining areas for limited food service and/or meeting, study, and activity space when the complete food service is not operating. Presently it is difficult to securely isolate the kitchen and servery areas from the seating areas. The renovations will greatly add to common area space, which will enhance the community program space and opportunities for students to interact outside the classroom.

In addition to these improvements, the outdoor patio and adjacent landscaping will be restored to again serve as recreation space and lakeside seating for casual dining and special events.

Elizabeth Waters has had extensive upgrades over the past several years. New windows, new electrical distribution systems with increased load capacity, renovated common bathrooms, new resident room furniture, and upgraded flooring all have enhanced this hall. However, the heating system has remained largely unchanged and will be replaced in this project. The new system will improve individual room heat controls and save energy.