University of Houston

University Campus covers an area of ​​667 acres. Over the last 5 years the University has received from private companies and government grants for the construction of new buildings and laboratories in the amount of $ 220 million. Since campus rather densely built up, then the extensions was decided to demolish all student parking lots and replace them with compact multi-story garages. Now the campus is large 4 car garage, with a total capacity of about 60 000 cars.



Another major project was the construction of the new University's main library. The construction, in 2004, spent $ 47 million. Now the university has a library has 2.4 million books.



In addition to the extensive library stacks has room for special projects, open spaces for learning, reading rooms, lounges, extensive hire various accessories, as cameras, camcorders, laptops and other electronics.



And of course no computers anywhere. For lovers of Macs have a separate room.



Another equally large project became a sports hall with a total living area of ​​25 000 sq. meters. Hall has everything imaginable and not imaginable for sports. Among the universities is one of the best gyms in the United States.



The hall has a mini-football field, a lot of classrooms and dance choreography, five basketball courts, 12 roketbolnyh courts, several classrooms martial arts, weightlifting gym and fitness, treadmill, 1 km long and 25-meter Olympic pool, length 70 meters. And on top of that, at the entrance there is a "rock", for fans to conquer Olympus. And it's all just inside the sports complex. Outside there is a swimming pool for relaxing with slides, bulk courts for tennis, soccer field and running track.



Campus is pretty big, so many students at the university move on bicycles, the other part of the students use the buses. Inside the campus, there are four different bus routes. Buses, of course, free of charge.



From the roofs of some car parks offer very pretty view of the city.



As in any major US university, here have their own stadium. Previously, the University of Houston was a stadium with a capacity of 32,000 seats. But the fact is that Houston itself is a great city, so for football games everyone does not fit in the stadium. With grief in half, having collected only $ 105 million., It was decided to build a new stadium. Old torn down and built a new, 60 000 places, that's for sure all climbed. True while the stadium has a capacity of only 40,000, another 20 000 seats will be completed in the near future, after the end of the football season. The project was originally designed for two under construction.



Generally, the university recently spent a lot of money for the construction of various infrastructure like as, for example, its own gas CHP or parking garages, and to create a comfortable learning environment. About the students also do not forget to spend about $ 90 million university built several new buildings with classrooms, places for learning and homework and labs. In fact, visits to classrooms, I wanted to become a student again.



Each university has its symbol in the form of an animal and its color scheme. As you can see from the photos, the university colors - red, combined with light gray. And if the symbol University. Rice is the owl, the University of Texas - the head of a bull longhorn breed, then the University of Houston - a cougar. Incidentally live cougar University lives in a zoo on the content, of course, of the University. By the way, fans make some noise on the rights of animals, cougar rescued newborn can say when some villain shot her mother. Now cougar in safety and lives with large aviary zoo next to the lions.



Actually, this is one of my favorite universities, it is very green and cozy, especially now, when a large construction project in the majority ended.



Although the end of construction still early, just recently made the list of the best universities in the US for a number of departments of education, the University has been awarded another grant, and now at the University of the program is scheduled to expand and improve the territory until 2020.





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