UTO and University-Wide Collaboration Brings New Center to Washington D.C.

The new ASU facility in Washington D.C. is a modern building.

We the people of Arizona State University and the University Technology Office have made a crucial impact in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, with a new Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center. Beginning three years ago, UTO and various other university departments began work to relocate the center to a new building.

UTO teams managed, designed, set the budget, and implemented the IT, audio-visual, and broadcast infrastructure networks. They also managed construction contractors and teams in order to ensure the standards of these systems were met. When all was nearly said and done, the Customer Service & Support, UTO Operations, and Capital Programs Management Group collaborated in evaluating existing construction conditions and ensuring move-in day would go as smoothly as possible.

UTO helped make sure every room in the new facility would be equipped to handle diverse technological needs.

That move-in day, on February 19, was the culmination of three years of hard work and collaboration. This was a major show of teamwork, with each members working tirelessly and many extended hours to ensure system integrations were ready for incoming customers.

But what is the Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center? The 32,000 square foot, eight-story building, located two blocks from the White House, expands the offerings of ASU in DC.

The UTO team had a great time expanding ASU's presence in the nation's capital.

The McCain Institute for International Leadership, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and its Cronkite News/Arizona PBS Washington Bureau, the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership, the Center on the Future of War and the Global Security Initiative are among the university’s initiatives that will be able to take advantage of the expanded resources of the new center. It will “serve as a catalyst and host of timely, leadership-level discourse between national decision-makers, opinion leaders, and ASU students, faculty, and staff.”

The grand opening gala, full of events during the whole week of March 12, is full of informative and thought-provoking panels like those on the future of war and free speech on campus. For more information on these events, and even see the recorded versions of some of them, click here. And read more about the Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center here.

Photo credit: Craig Trimble

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