As you walk and drive around campus this spring, odds are that you’ll run into construction.

Every year, parts of our beautiful campus are replaced, renovated or repaired. Currently, the south part of Bissell Road is being renovated, the new Student Innovation Center is beginning inside construction and the Gerdin expansion began.

Iowa State puts a lot of thought into the best times to start construction projects so as to interfere with student life as little as possible.

The majority of road construction is completed in the summer, dipping into semesters only if the project requires such time. New buildings and expansions are carefully mapped out to keep sidewalks open and inconvenience students for as short of a time as possible.

Unfortunately, Iowa State has taken the wrong approach to fixing or improving infrastructure on campus. The ISD Editorial Board suggests that instead of creating a bunch of minor disturbances, Iowa State should perform all construction projects at once.

Admittedly, Iowa State would have to shut down for a year, maybe more, as everything on campus went through planned renovations, improvements and replacements. Students, professors and almost all staff would have to take that time off and vacation somewhere.

As we all relax on our year-long break, construction crews could get busy fixing what left of the crumbling infrastructure.

Cracked roads can be replaced using the red bricks leftover from the demolition of Friley Hall. Rather than paint yellow lines on those historic bricks, construction crews could tear down the Campanile and use its yellowish stones to separate lanes of traffic. How cool would cardinal and gold roads be?

With the Campanile gone, construction crews could get to work solving one of the biggest problems on campus — parking. It’s not that we don’t have the space, Iowa State just chooses to allot some space to grass rather than concrete. With that in mind, crews could build a multi-story parking garage in the big green spot between Curtiss, Beardshear and the Memorial Union. They could call it the Middle of Campus Parking Garage, catchy huh?

In all seriousness, the disturbances to our daily lives caused by construction have gotten too big and too frequent to put up with for any longer. Taking a year off to improve Iowa State’s campus is the only feasible option left. What alumni donors wouldn’t want to be a part of reshaping campus?