James Madison University Paul Jennings Residence Hall

W.M. Jordan Company provided Construction Management at Risk services to James Madison University for their new residence hall project. Paul Jennings Hall is a first year, 5-story, 151,000 square foot student housing facility with two brick veneer residential wings with cast-in-stone masonry, metal panels, a store front with punched windows joined by a connector with a glass façade.

The new student residence includes 500 beds, combining living space and learning space as the next example of JMU’s Residential Learning Communities. The first floor includes two classrooms, a multi-purpose room for events, a recreation room, a learning commons, and two faculty apartments.  Each floor includes two study areas and three large lounges. The bathrooms are uniquely set-up as pods containing three rooms, each with a toilet, shower and sink for a total of eight pods on each floor.

Outside there is a large courtyard that includes outdoor amenities such as bench seating, collaborative spaces, areas for food trucks, hardscapes and a paved walkway the leads to a land bridge constructed by W.M. Jordan to connect the path with neighboring residence halls and dining facilities.