  {"id":119828,"date":"2020-06-02T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=119828"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:44:34","slug":"teams-prepare-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/02\/teams-prepare-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams prepare classrooms for fall, social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-reconfiguration.jpg\" alt=\"people moving desks in classroom\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-119831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-reconfiguration.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-reconfiguration-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-reconfiguration-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> architects and engineers are reconfiguring <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a> classrooms and teaching laboratories so students and faculty are able to practice safe social distancing when in-person instruction resumes in fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-final-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people sitting on desks after social distancing measures\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-119834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-final-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-classroom-final.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Space Planning, Preparation and Utilization working group, led by <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Vice President for Administration <strong>Jan Gouveia<\/strong>, is responsible for the effort. The group is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/11\/manoa-covid-19-teams-fall-2020\/\">eight working groups<\/a> preparing for the reopening of campus after it was abruptly closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em>东精影业 News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/04\/uh-preparing-safe-fall-return\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> preparing for safe return to campuses in fall<\/a>, May 4, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A team of 14 people from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Office of Project Delivery staff, normally responsible for managing campus construction projects, is assessing 435 classrooms and marking a 6 foot distance between each desk\/chair.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment is expected to be completed by mid-June. The overall plans for the fall semester will be announced by June 30, if not sooner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A classroom before and after<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119840\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-before.jpg\" alt=\"desks lined up before accommodating for social distancing\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-before.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-before-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-before-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kuykendall Hall desks before social distancing accommodation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-reconfiguration.jpg\" alt=\"triangle stick to measure distances between desks\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-119835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-reconfiguration.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-reconfiguration-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-reconfiguration-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119836\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-covid19.jpg\" alt=\"classroom reconfigured to accommodate social distancing\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-covid19.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-covid19-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/manoa-opd-kuykendall-covid19-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kuykendall Hall classroom reconfigured to accommodate safe social distancing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> architects and engineers are assessing 435 classrooms and marking a 6 foot distance between each desk\/chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1411,1418,202,9],"class_list":["post-119828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-announcement","tag-facilities","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119830,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119828\/revisions\/119830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}