Painting ECU’s New Student Union
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| The 220,000-square-foot building houses a range of services, with their own unique paints and wallcoverings. |
The new East Carolina University Student Union student center was a massive undertaking. The $122 million center brings 220,000 square feet of restaurants, retail space and ballrooms to the campus, where it serves as the new ECU front door. With dynamic rooms and a plethora of different stores in the student center, this project included a multitude of interior paints and wallcoverings.
Of course, a job this big was hardly short on challenges. Throughout the project, the National Coatings team was challenged to maintain a proper workflow and schedule for the production work, due to the compressed schedule and requirements of the GC.
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| The new student union center was the N.C. university’s largest construction project since 2001. |
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Because they had to work with a compressed schedule, the crew leader opted to increase manpower. When the quality of their work started to suffer, they would change out manpower to get a set of fresh hands on deck and ensure that finishes were first-rate. The company also enforced a management change on the project, which in turn greatly helped in the finishing and the follow-up of the project.
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| ECU's bold purple and gold are now featured throughout the center. |
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Key Products
- Sherwin-Williams paint in varying colors
- Tackable wallcoverings
- Goldenrod wallcoverings
