Food Product Development Lab Bulk Ingredient Storage & ROTC Storage: Harrison Hall
Description of Request
Submitted By: Wan-Yuan Kuo & Sophia Seffrood (FPDL), Stephen Peters (ROTC)
The Food Product Development Lab (FPDL) Extrusion Unit receives large quantities of
dry ingredients in bulk. The contents arrive and are stored in 4-gallon pails, totes,
pallets, large garbage bins, and other container types, which take up large quantities
of space. As a result, their research and testing operations have outgrown their current
space, thus prompting this request for additional storage space in Harrison Hall.
Room 134, which is located directly across the hall from the Extrusion Lab, and room
057 in the basement, for non-food items, have been identified for this purpose. The
FDPL has received the necessary approval from the university sanitarian, Dustin Schreiner,
to store food grade items in room 134. The allocation of these additional rooms will
help accommodate the growth of the FDPL lab as well as create more efficient storage
solutions
Currently, Harrison 134 is assigned to ROTC and is utilized as an issue point for
gear as well as occasional storage, but the space is not utilized very frequently.
ROTC is willing to relinquish room 134 for use by the FDPL lab, in exchange for unfinished
space in room 106X Harrison Hall, which is currently only accessible through ROTC’s
caged storage area. The space is unfinished and would need lighting installed, miscellaneous
outlets added throughout the space, floor patch to level the concrete and remove tripping
hazards, and framing off and sheet rocking a few walls within the space. No long-term
plan has been identified for the space and it is currently unutilized. Norm Asbjornson
College of Engineering will fund the improvements in conjunction with Education Health
& Human Development funds. ROTC will use room 106X primarily as storage for their
Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) gear and Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment
(OCIE), as well as occasional laser rifle training for cadets.
Resolution
Date: February 3, 2023
Space Management Committee has approved the allocations described above, and recommends examining egress options for room 106X..