Appalachian State University Campus Store
Boone, North Carolina
Renovation of the first-floor retail and service area into the newly named Campus Store, including new signage and sound systems.
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Institutional and Higher Education Construction
Campuses and public buildings do not have a construction season. They have a semester, a court calendar, a dining schedule. The contractor who understands that is the one who finishes without an angry email from the registrar.
Talk to a preconstruction leadFive institutional projects
Three delivered for Appalachian State, plus Forsyth Tech and the Surry County Judicial Center.
The academic calendar
Scheduled against semester breaks and move-in dates rather than a generic construction calendar.
Public and historic buildings
Including the 1919 Surry County Judicial Center, a 37,000 sq ft renovation.
The academic calendar is the real schedule
On a campus the deadline is not a date on a contract, it is the day students come back. That reverses the usual planning logic. Work is sized to fit the window rather than the window stretched to fit the work, long-lead items are ordered against move-in rather than against substantial completion, and any scope that cannot finish inside the break has to be phased so the space is usable in between.
Hayco has run three projects for Appalachian State University in Boone. The Career Development Center sat on the second floor of the Plemmons Student Union, above an operating student union, and the work included demolition, general construction, HVAC, electrical, fire alarm and structural modification, plus reworking the adjacent McAlister's Deli seating area to expand the center.
Working above, beside and underneath people
Institutional renovation is almost always occupied-building work, and the neighbors are students, staff, jurors or patients. That drives the same disciplines Hayco uses on healthcare projects: containment, dust and noise control, protected egress, and after-hours sequencing for anything loud or disruptive.
It also drives coordination that has nothing to do with construction. A dining hall renovation has to account for where students eat instead. A student union project has to keep the corridor to the food court open. Those are schedule decisions, and they belong in preconstruction rather than in a change order.
Public and historic buildings
County and municipal work brings a different constraint set: public bid procedure, prevailing documentation, and often a building that predates every code it is now being asked to meet. The Surry County Judicial Center in Dobson was originally built in 1919. Hayco delivered cosmetic renovations across 37,000 square feet while preserving the historic fabric of the building, which is a different job from renovating a 1990s office.
Institutional projects Hayco has delivered
Roess and Trivette Dining Hall
Boone, North Carolina
Dining hall project delivered for Appalachian State University.
App State Career Development Center
Boone, North Carolina
Second-floor upfit in the Plemmons Student Union and Solarium: demolition, general construction, HVAC, electrical, fire alarm and structural modification.
Surry County Judicial Center
Dobson, North Carolina
Cosmetic renovations to a judicial center originally built in 1919, completed while preserving the building's historic character.
Forsyth Technical Community College
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Interior renovation of the nanotechnology laboratories for an institution serving more than 11,000 students.
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Three of these five are for the same university, across three different building types, over three years. Repeat selection by an institutional owner is the strongest signal available in this sector, because the second award is made by people who lived through the first project. The Forsyth Tech laboratory work is covered in more depth on the laboratory construction page.
How institutional projects are usually delivered
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General construction under a public bid
is the default for county and municipal work, where the design is complete and the selection is procedural.
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Design-build
fits campus projects where the institution has a budget and a need but not yet a drawing set.
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Interior upfit
covers the majority of campus renovation, which is existing space being repurposed rather than new building.
Where Hayco builds institutional
Institutional work has been delivered across North Carolina, from Boone to Winston-Salem to Dobson. Hayco is licensed across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, and staffs work from Pilot Mountain and Raleigh, North Carolina, and West Columbia, South Carolina.
Common questions
Can you complete a renovation inside a semester break?
That is how most campus work is scoped. The break window is fixed at preconstruction and the schedule, procurement and phasing are built backwards from it. Anything that cannot finish inside the window is phased so the space stays usable.
Do you work on occupied campus buildings?
Yes. The App State Career Development Center was delivered on the second floor of an operating student union, adjacent to a working food service area.
Have you worked on historic public buildings?
Yes. The Surry County Judicial Center in Dobson was originally built in 1919 and was renovated with its historic character preserved.
Planning a campus or public building project?
Tell us the building, the window you have to work inside, and who stays in the space while you do. A preconstruction lead will follow up.
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