ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

SUPPORTING GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Every effort has been made in Walker Hall to use technology to enhance the students' experiences inside and outside the classroom. For instance, to enhance group collaboration, there are 12 graduate team rooms equipped with plasma screens. The walls are covered with marker boards. Electronic schedulers allow students to book the room themselves, either online or by using the screen outside the door. In addition, the Global Financial Markets Trading Center uses the latest technology that is used at Wall Street firms.

A GREEN BUILDING

SUSTAINING BUSINESS PRACTICES

The Walker Hall architects incorporated many features to support green building practices. Placed on a restored landscape, the building design focused on water consumption, recycling, regional and recycled building materials, access to public transportation, thermal and motion-sensitive lighting, and natural light.

BUILDING FACTS

  • Named Willard J. Walker Hall in honor of the late Willard Walker, a leader in the development of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, and the $8 million lead gift from the Willard and Pat Walker Foundation
  • Planning began in 2000
  • Topping Out ceremony on April 21, 2006
  • Construction began in fall of 2005
  • Completed in summer of 2007
  • Four-building business campus (Business Building, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development, Willard J. Walker Hall, and J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Center for Academic Excellence) joined by Linda Sue Shollmier Plaza
  • Architects: Allison Architects Inc., Little Rock, Ark., and Machado and Silvetti Associates Inc. of Boston
  • Contractor: CDI Contractors LLC
  • Building size: 77,760 square feet
  • Building cost: $22 million
  • Building height: 87'-0" from the basement floor to the top of the parapet cap
  • 28,000 square feet of burnished block for the building exterior
  • 9000 square feet of aluminum composite panels on the building exterior
  • 14,400 square feet of glass
  • 645 tons of steel
  • 2,050 cubic yards of concrete
  • 19 miles of audio/visual cabling
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