In addition to our great classroom facilities, the construction management department offers it students the following added facilities:
Construction Office Simulation Lab
Plan Room
CENS CADD Lab
Masonry and Concrete Compound
Soils Laboratory
Concrete and Masonry Laboratories
Destructive Testing Laboratories
Machine and Welding Shop
Demonstration and Trade Skills Shop
Computing Facilities
On-Line Opportunities
Construction Management Laboratories and Other Facilities
Construction Office Simulation 2,000Square Feet
This lab is used for teaching and self directed learning.
We first opened this lab in the Spring of 1999, in 2006 we moved into a new and expanded area. In March of 2007 we removed the PC environment and moved to a thin client server technology vastly improving technology and reducing costs while at the same time expanding availability to students.
this unique work are has become the focus of upper level collaborative learning (the best kind) for construction management and civil engineering students.
A wide bed HP printer and access to a high speed color laser plotter allows us to use the latest construction and design graphic software.
The lab includes ample room for plan lay down and multiple user interface.
Each of the twenty-two computer stations is wired for voice transmission. All the computers are connected to the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences servers and the university network.
Software in the lab includes, IMSI TurboCad, Softdesk AutoCad V2000, Means Cost Works, Project for Windows Scheduling, Prolog by Meridian (Project management software) The entire Microsoft Office 2000 suite as well as many other software programs.
The lab also features full AV with projection, DVD, VHS and on screen computing.
Plan Room 300 Square Feet
A significant amount of construction student learning is visualization and three dimensional modelling. In the new facilities we have a 300 SF room dedicated to student visualization projects.
A state of the art HP 1050 series ink jet plotter as well as a HP wide bed laser jet allow us to use the latest CADD and graphic software.
CENS CADD Lab 3000 Square Feet
The college has a thirty station Computer Aided design and Drafting lab equipped to run the latest versions of Autocadd and Solidedge software.
Masonry and Concrete Testing and Demonstration Compound 5000 Square Feet
(New Facility under development)
The CM department has a five thousand square foot fenced compound within a five minute walk of the colleges main building. This area is used for concrete and masonry demonstration and test work.
This is a unique facility for higher education construction management programs.
This facility is partially funded by the Arizona Masonry Guild
Soils Laboratory (dual use facility with Civil Engineering)
Fundamentally all construction rests on soil. Our soils classes are taught by our own engineering faculty and our laboratories are state of the art facilities allowing us to host up to twenty five students in an comfortable work environment.
Concrete and Masonry Laboratories
The concrete and masonry laboratories are used in conjunction with the remote Masonry and Concrete Testing and Demonstration Compound. These facilities allow us to perform a variety of design and destructive demonstrations for cement and grout. The civil engineering department uses this facility for construction of the concrete canoe.
Engineering Destructive Materials Testing Lab
This facility houses a variety of destructive test equipment, used in measuring structural properties of construction materials.
Machine and Welding Shop (Bldg 98C)
NAU CENS Engineering and Professional Programs has a machine shop and welding shop in a new facility about a five minute walk from the main engineering complex. Machine shop and welding classes are taught at Coconino Community College. After safety and competency testing these facilities are available for supervised use of undergraduate students.
Demonstration and Trade Skills Shop
Our first year demonstration and service learning areas are located at the Coconino Community College 4th Street campus. Through our partnership, first year experiential laboratories are held in the community college shops.
Computing Facilities
NAU CENS Engineering and Professional Programs offers a variety of computing access methods. The engineering complex features more 300 PC"s and Unix machines. In an effort to improve, streamline operations and cut costs, we are in the process of moving our computing use to thin client servers with terminals.
The engineering complex is covered by wi-fi, and Bldg 69 has twenty-four hour seven day per week controlled access lab facilities available to undergraduate students in engineering and professional programs.
On-Line Opportunities
NAU is consistently listed as one of the "most-wired" universities in the United States. NAU offers un-paralleled opportunities for self directed on-line education in project management software and web commerce design. NAU licenses the latest software for students and faculty use including use on personal computers. See http://www.nau.edu/~its/
CM Soils Lab
Students display their design and build work in the masonry compound
Greenhouse/potting shed under construction at the 4th street wood working shop (Coconino Community College)
