Yesterday’s flooding has failed to slow the widespread construction underway on the Iowa State campus.

Dean McCormick, an engineer with ISU’s facilities planning, said Monday’s flood has not affected any construction projects, but “the fact that we have had rain has delayed some; although it hasn’t had any direct affect.”

The university has 40 construction projects for the summer. “Those range from new buildings to utilities projects to renovations,” McCormick said.

He said the utility project that has Bissel Road closed should be finished by the start of fall classes. The construction will increase utility capacity for the new Student Health Center, which is being constructed west of Beyer Hall, and for the future Howe Engineering Teaching and Research Complex.

The Student Health Center should be finished by June 1997, McCormick said. Most of the exterior should be completed by winter, leaving the inside for construction workers to finish during the cold months.

He said the new athletic offices and training facility next to Cyclone Stadium will be finished by football season, and added that the spring weather has been favorable to the new grass on the stadium’s playing field.

“The turf looks good. It’s down, in, and growing,” McCormick said. “The weather has worked out perfect for that project.” He said spring’s early, dry weather helped with the planting while the heavy, wet weather of late helped spur growth.

The construction next to the National Soil Tilth Laboratory is not an ISU project, but a federal government project. The new building addition will become the National Swine Research Center and should be finished in the summer of 1997.

Rick Fox, an engineer with facilities planning’s landscape architecture department, said the campus will get four new bicycle parking areas with n-shaped racks, which allow all styles of bicycles to be locked up. The bicycle racks will be located southeast of the Town Engineering Building along Bissel Road, near the southwest entrance of the College of Design, west of the Food Science Building on the closed portion of Knoll Road, and along the west side of the Memorial Union.

“We just resurfaced the bike path along Beach Avenue that runs past the Iowa State Center,” he said.

The campus will also see three new seating areas: south of Beardshear Hall, west of Atanasoff Hall, and on the north side of Pearson Hall. The Pearson seating area is already under construction.

Fox said Parking Lot 50 and the walkway that runs east-west through it will be reconstructed.

“We’re going to reconfigure the laying to make more efficient use of space. That will likely start at the beginning of July,” he said.