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Austin Community College will host a college fair at the new Elgin Campus Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event gives prospective students, parents, and the community an opportunity to tour the campus and explore college and career training programs. Attendees can meet with admissions staff...

This is a reminder that the Elgin Campus remains closed to all non-essential visitors until further notice. This includes all ACC employees, students, and the public. If your duties require you to be on the Elgin Campus, please contact Project Manager Pamela Collier (709.3975) or Project Coordinator Susan...

Work is progressing on ACC’s Elgin Campus in advance of a planned opening this fall. Here is the latest: Brickwork is being completed. Exterior curtain wall windows, metal wall panels, and insulation are nearly complete. Interior walls are being finished and painted. The ceramic tile floors in the...

The Elgin Campus is on schedule to open for the fall 2013 semester as construction work continues to advance. Here are some updates: The site utility connections are being finalized. The water connection to Aqua Water Supply Corp. has been completed. Gas service is nearly complete, as is the electric power...

Site work: The vast majority of the site paving is complete. Only some driveway leave-outs for utility pathways, the service driveway at the building, and some sidewalks/walkways remaining to be poured. The deceleration lane on Highway 290 westbound has been completed. The state Transportation Department...

The steel structure is complete except for a few miscellaneous steel members and roofing details. The exterior walls are being constructed, and the look and feel of the building is beginning to take shape. The roofing and exterior building brick will begin at the end of July. Mechanical yard masonry veneer...

The Austin Community College District is celebrating a milestone in the construction of its new Elgin Campus. On June 1, ACC and Skanska USA, the construction manager, marked the project’s “topping out,” signifying the safe and successful completion of the facility’s main framework. Prior to...

The steel structure is almost completely erected. Soon the exterior stud framing, curtain walls, windows, and masonry will follow starting on the south facade working counter-clockwise. Meanwhile, the site paving is continuing with the bulk of the paving done already. Work is progressing nicely. The project...

See the ACC course schedule for summer classes at the Elgin Center....

We have started to go vertical! Steel erection began April 19. The building will be erected in three sections from floor to roof. It is expected to be complete by early June. One of the driveways and the south parking lot will be poured by the end of April. The north parking lot and two other driveways will...