Preparatory Projects Completed
Camden County College held the Madison Connector Building Groundbreaking ceremony on October 20, 2005.  This activity celebrated the first new construction project on the Blackwood Campus in more than a decade and the first major project to begin under the six-year, $83 million campus transformation initiative building on the incremental renovation and repair projects funded with previous capital appropriations.  In order to prepare for the construction of the Madison Connector Building and Madison Hall renovation project, the following projects were completed in FY2005 and FY2006:

Community Center Renovation
The College celebrated the grand opening of the Community Center in August 2005.  The Community Center was renovated as a result of a second floor kitchen fire in March 2003.  The space organization of the first floor remained essentially the same as it was prior to the fire.  The few exceptions include the relocation of the student activities offices to the second floor, the expansion of the bookstore and the addition of a small classroom adjacent to the radio station for communication courses.  On the second floor, there is a new dining area, a new cyber café and a new faculty/staff dining room.  In addition, the meeting room for the Board of Trustees was remodeled. 
• Community Center

Wilson Center Renovation
Construction began in the spring of 2005 to convert the 6,648 square foot Wilson Hall Center back into a customer-friendly records, registration and bursar environment.  This project included new mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems for the area.  The new physical space houses twenty new panel system work stations, seven new offices, a new public safety suite, a file/work room and renovated lavatories. This project was completed in November 2005.
• Wilson Center

CIM Classroom/Office Renovation
During the summer of 2005, the renovation of temporary spaces in the CIM building began.  As planned the bookstore and advisement/student services offices were moved from temporary space back into the newly renovated Community Center.   Four second floor classrooms and eight first floor classrooms were created.  First floor lavatories were also expanded and renovated.  To house faculty previously located in Madison Hall, an office complex of nineteen faculty offices was created on the second floor.  Renovations were completed by the end of October 2005.
• CIM Classrooms

Jefferson Hall 3rd Floor Renovation
Construction began in April 2005 to renovate the third floor of Jefferson Hall and to install the new elevator tower.   Twenty faculty offices and two classrooms were created on the third floor.  The building’s south side now includes an elevator tower and associated lobby spaces making the building wheelchair accessible and ADA compliant. This project was completed in November 2005.
• Jefferson Hall

Mobile Classroom Building Project
Classroom trailers were located on new foundations with additional electrical and phone service on the north side of the campus.  Eight new classrooms with ADA compliant restrooms were used beginning in the Fall 2005 semester.    

Two New Temporary Parking Lots
Student parking spaces were lost when the new trailers were installed in the Wilson Drive parking lot in the summer.  Additional parking spaces were lost when the construction of the Connector Building and Madison renovation began in the winter.  A new parking lot was created with 108 new parking spaces near the baseball field and Polk Hall.  A second gravel parking lot was created behind CIM and the Helene Fuld Building.  This lot has 275 parking spaces. 

Phase I
Connector Building and Madison Hall Renovation
Construction began on the Madison Connector Building & Madison Hall renovation project in November 2005. This project encompasses the renovation of the 48,000-square-foot Madison Hall and the construction of a new 32,000-square-foot Madison Connector Building. 
• Design Plans
• Groundbreaking
• Madison Hall
• Connector Building
• Web Cam

The Madison Connector Building will serve as the indoor crossroads of the Blackwood Campus, connecting the recently refurbished College Community Center to the soon-to-be extensively remodeled Madison Hall.  When completed in Fall 2007, the connector building also will serve as the headquarters for the College’s new Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility.

Featuring an architecturally dramatic curved exterior, a three-story atrium with skylight, and pedestrian bridges, the Madison Connector Building will contain a 244-seat lecture theater, a 40-seat amphitheatre, high-tech classrooms, and offices. 

The renovations to Madison Hall will increase amenities there to 27 classrooms, two lecture halls, and additional faculty offices.  Innovative “smart” technologies will fill both structures, providing state-of-the-art wireless and hard-wired lecture halls as well as computer-equipped classrooms. 

Among the highlights will be instant-response technologies, cable television systems, flat-panel monitors, video-conferencing capabilities, projectors, VCR/DVD players, document cameras, stereo speakers, and the very latest in educational and communication technologies. 

Begin Construction of Ring Road and Parking
A new ring road will be built around the perimeter of the campus to allow for safer vehicle-travel routes and increased parking.  This project will also include new storm water management parking lots and athletic fields, earthwork, site preparation, new roadways, lighting, allowances, and new campus walkways and pavers with concrete boarders and landscaping.  The new ring road project will increase our parking spaces by approximately 10% at the Blackwood Campus. The design of this project will begin in the fall semester.

Rehabilitation of Athletic Fields
The baseball, soccer, softball and track athletic fields will be upgraded and improved.  The addition of bleachers, a concession facility and spectator lavatories will transform the athletic fields into suitable fields for a large multi-faceted and energetic 24/7 campus.

Science Building Design
The next major project is the construction of a new science building that will house modern, technologically enhanced laboratories to support the regions booming science and healthcare industries. 

Preliminary space programming occurred during Spring, 2006 with “brainstorming” sessions held with the Math, Science, and Health Career faculty and staff.  Concepts such as a first floor clinic for Dental Hygiene, Dental Assisting, Ophthalmic Dispensing, and the Veterinary Technology programs and a café run by Food Service Manager and Nutrition Science program students have been discussed.  State of the art science laboratories with a walk-in cold room and a walk-in incubator as well as an “experimental” laboratory for nanotechnology and immunology courses were proposed.  The groups also discussed a mock hospital concept that would incorporate a medical records room and a mock emergency room for our Paramedic, EMT, Surgical Technology, CNA, and LPN program students.  The design of this project is anticipated to begin in the Fall semester.