Correction: A new version of this story has been posted due to a factual error. The Justice regrets the error. Students arriving at Brandeis this week will still have to wind their way around construction sites on campus, but administrators said all projects are on schedule. The buildings closest to completion, the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center and Ridgewood residence halls, are slated to open in spring 2009.

Other construction projects in progress are the new Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, the Edmond J. Safra Center Fine Arts building and the Mandel Center for Humanities, Vice President of Capital Projects Dan Feldman said.

Feldman said the 100,000-square-foot Science Center, which is the biggest part of phase one of the science complex renewal project, has seen a lot of progress in recent months. The entire phase one will cost a little over $80 million.

The building transformed the view of the campus from the main entrance and is a "strikingly sort of modern building," Feldman said. The building is designed by Payette Associates.

Most of the exterior panel system has been put into place, Feldman said. This part of the building is made up of "a very green product," whose main material is Swisspearl, a cement-based product largely made up of recycled materials.

The Science Center consists of five levels. Flooring, paint, lab benches and fume hoods have been installed on the ground floor. The biology and chemistry teaching labs are almost finished, Feldman said. The science center is scheduled to be open for use starting in late winter 2009.

The Friedland and Kalman science buildings will be removed in summer and fall 2009. Feldman said phase two of the science complex renewal project will be a chemistry building on the footprint of Kalman.

Feldman said the $35 million new residence halls, which temporarily go by the name Ridgewood, are also on schedule and on budget. They are expected to be ready by the spring 2009 semester and will hold 184 beds.

All three buildings now have a brick exterior and most windows. The northernmost building will hold the South Campus Commons, a multipurpose space for students, Feldman said.

The residence hall will have four- and six-person apartments, with four to five apartments per floor. Each will have single bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom.

The University used "as much recycled material as we could,"?he said.

The old admissions center, designed by Charles Rose, was removed in the past few weeks to make room for the new, $14 million Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center.

The 20,700-square-foot building will have a welcome center with two waiting areas, a presentation room for 100 people with "state-of-the-art presentation technologies," space for graphic displays and interview rooms, Feldman said.

Moshe Safdie and Associates finished design development on the Edmond J. Safra Fine Arts building, phase one of the new Center for the Arts. The University is waiting for a cost estimate on the building. Construction is scheduled to start this fall and have a mid-May 2010 opening, Feldman said.

The new building will take the form of a bridge and will include a lecture hall and seminar room, Feldman said.

The most recent project, Feldman said, is the $22.5 million Mandel Center for the Humanities. The project was made possible with the help of a grant from the Cleveland-based Mandel Foundation.

Kalman, McKinnell and Wood Architects completed the schematic design for the building in June.

The building will connect to Olin-Sang and have entrances on Loop Road and near Tower Lot. The building will have [one] 100-seat classroom, one five-seat classroom, 40 offices, two 24-seat seminar rooms, an outdoor terrace and multipurpose space, Feldman said.

Collins said the practice athletics field near the commuter rail station is being used as a parking lot, and activities will move to Chapels Field.

"We're putting things back together again," Collins said.

Correction: The article originally stated that the Mandel Center for Humanities had four 100-seat classrooms, a theater lecture hall, a 50-feet tiered lecture hall, 40 offices and two 24-seat seminar rooms. It actually has one 100-seat classroom, one five-seat classroom, 40 offices and two 24-seat seminar rooms.