An inside look at Hitt Hall

You are standing in Perry Place in Hitt Hall. So it's a brand new facility, two floors of dining. Our concepts here are unique. A little different than anything else you see within dining services. Nine different concepts. We have Solarex, Amp, Addison's, Trax deli, and we have a full service Chik-fil-A. Smoke, Fresh and Feta, Rambutan, Veloce. All the stations use compostable bowls, containers, silverware, napkins. All of those are all sustainable. It's great to be in an academic facility, be tied in with Hitt Hall, Myer-Lawson School Of Construction. We find some synergies when students kind of come together, being in an academic space. Being adjacent to the state of the art dining has been great, and enables us to do outreach to students that aren't doing construction. The construction industry has had tremendous demand for students over the past decade. And we got to the point where we outgrew Bishop-Favrao Hall. Means we can be much larger. It enables us to essentially double our efforts in teaching with the additional students. We can do state of the art research. Things like robotics, sensors, drones, 3-D concrete printing. Really the whole entire campus community benefits from our facility here in the North Academic Precinct. Really the main focus is our students, they're number one, but really want to kind of touch into our faculty and our staff. It's another facility they could actually come in, grab lunch, eat dinner with us, and try to do that. That's really, why we built the facility, really for the campus community.