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Media update: Revised route announced as KU students move building to Greensburg

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WHEN: Monday, March 17

WHAT: Seven “oversize load” trucks with pilot vehicles will haul a prefabricated, environmentally sustainable arts center about 325 miles across Kansas — from Lawrence to Greensburg.

Over one day, the convoy will pass at least 16 Kansas communities in 13 counties: Barton, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Kiowa, Marion, McPherson, Morris, Osage, Pratt, Rice and Stafford.

WHO: Studio 804, the design/build program for graduate students at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

WHERE: The convoy will depart Lawrence at 7 a.m. and take the following route:

US 40 to K10 (Lawrence)
South on US 59 to Ottawa
West on K68 to Burlingame, Osage City, Council Grove, Herington, (Marion), McPherson, Lyons, Chase, Ellinwood, Great Bend
West on US 56 to Great Bend
South on US 281 to St. John, Iuka, Pratt
West on US 54 to Greensburg

Upon arrival in Greensburg, the students of Studio 804 will assemble the seven modules upon a foundation. Finishing work will take place on site throughout late March, April and early May.

“It’s been rewarding to see the building take shape over the last few weeks and see our work from the beginning of the semester come to life,” said Jenny Kivett, a Studio 804 student from Victoria. “There is still a tremendous amount of work to be done, and we are at the point where we are excited to move to the next step in the process and see the project through to completion.”

When completed, the 1,600-square-foot arts center will feature solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating, thermal massing and other Earth-friendly systems. Studio 804 expects the structure to attain the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification, the nation’s most rigorous standard for environmental sustainability.

An open house for the new arts center is planned for May 4, the one–year anniversary of the tornado that devastated Greensburg.

For more information, go to www.features.ku.edu/greensburg/.

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