Anyone attempting to drive across campus will face difficulties because of widespread construction.

Adding to the construction chaos is the work being done at the Pammel Road and Bissel Road intersection.

The university is “rebuilding street curb work in order to narrow down that intersection. It had been extremely wide, and that made it difficult for pedestrian walking,” said Rick Fox, an engineer with facilities planning’s landscape architecture department.

Fox said Pammel Road was originally made wide in that area to accommodate parking along the street for the golf course club house, which has not been located there for years.

“The intersection will be narrowed down to four lanes,” he said.

The western leg of Beyer Court, which runs through the Union Drive Association, will be resurfaced on Saturday. The Iowa State Center parking lot’s west driveway, which is used by Cy-Ride’s shuttle service, will also receive an overlay the same day.

Stange Road north of the Squaw Creek bridge will receive repair work starting next week and will get a resurfacing in another three weeks, Fox estimates.

“Project schedules are being frequently modified,” he said.

Some street patching and minor overlay work will be done on the driveway out to the Applied Science Complex at Scholl Road in the northwest end of town.

Dean McCormick, an engineer with ISU’s facilities planning, said he estimates the southern end of Bissel Road should be partially open around the beginning of August. He hopes it will be fully open by the beginning of the fall semester.

The new athletic offices and training facility next to Cyclone Stadium, McCormick said, should be open and in use by the beginning of the football season. He said members of the athletic department have already begun to move in.

“We expect to start some of the work on the Intensive Livestock Research and Instruction Facilities sometime around the middle of August,” he said. The facilities will serve the College of Agriculture and will connect to Kildee Hall and the Meats Laboratory.

“The old Meats Lab building will be renovated as part of this project,” he said.

Fox said work will begin next week on the Memorial Union’s new bike racks. Work on the bike racks for the Town Engineering Building, College of Design and the Food Science Building will begin in the fall and run into October, depending on priority of projects on campus.

As for seating areas Fox said, “The contractor is finishing up the one on the south side of Beardshear. They will be working into the first week of August. At that point all the seating areas will be usable.”

The walkway through Lot 50 is finished, but the lot itself is receiving new concrete curbing and is being surfaced. The lot will also have more parking spaces when it is finished, which is expected to be around the beginning of fall semester.

“You’ll be able to appreciate that walkway once the rest of that construction work is completed,” he said.