{"id":103902,"date":"2019-09-25T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T02:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=103902"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:10:45","slug":"creative-media-facility-final-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/25\/creative-media-facility-final-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates final beam for <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu Creative Media facility"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_66703\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUR5MjAbtOQ?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Community celebrates final beam for Â鶹´«Ã½West O\u02bbahu Creative Media facility\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The Creative Media Facility at the <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> reached a milestone with the installation of its final beam. To mark the occasion, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students, faculty, staff, administrators and supporters each autographed a 15-foot white beam in rainy weather, commemorating their involvement in the 33,000-square foot building that is set to hold classes in fall 2020. The final beam installation marks the conclusion of one stage of the construction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees\/creative-media\/general-creative-media\/\">Creative Media program<\/a>, which will call this facility home, is important to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> and the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System as it provides our students with continuous opportunities to connect with our area K&#8211;12 schools and community colleges, and importantly to exciting, innovative careers!&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Chancellor <strong>Maenette Benham<\/strong> said of the $33,275,000 building that was awarded to local contractor Kiewit Building Group and local architect firm Next Design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/west-oahu-acm-beam-signing.jpg\" alt=\"Benham signing contruction beam\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/west-oahu-acm-beam-signing.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/west-oahu-acm-beam-signing-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Chancellor Maenette Benham signs the beam intended for installation at the Creative Media Facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new building aligns with the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\u2019s\">O&#699;ahu\u2019s<\/span> newest degree program\u2014the bachelor of arts in creative media. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\u2019s\">O&#699;ahu\u2019s<\/span> Creative Media program embraces new media through video, animation, video games, social media platforms, apps, and virtual and augmented reality. The degree has concentrations in communications and new media technologies, design and media, game design and development and general creative media.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/11\/academy-for-creative-media-begins-construction\/\">Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> begins<\/a>, January 11, 2019<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/06\/acm-contract-awarded\/\">Contract awarded for Academy for Creative Media building<\/a>, June 6, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Today marks another milestone for the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmsystem.hawaii.edu\/\">Academy for Creative Media System<\/a> and our partnership with <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> ACM,&rdquo; Academy for Creative Media System founder and Director <strong>Chris Lee<\/strong> said. &ldquo;This will not only be the most technologically advanced, student-focused building for creative media education at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Â鶹´«Ã½,<\/span> but will ensure living wage industry jobs for the West Side and all of our state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The facility will link complementary facilities and programs throughout the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System and across the state as a catalyst for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> intellectual property workforce. The new Creative Media facility at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> will consist of production spaces that include a two-story sound stage for filming, multi-purpose lobby, 100-seat theater with Dolby Atmos mixing capability, Foley stage for sound reproduction, editing suites, sound mixing suites, digital intermediate color grading, eSports Arena, incubator for student run companies, outdoor amphitheater, emerging media lab, mill shop to create film sets and equipment cages. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Leila Wai Shimokawa<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> begins<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_77164\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1E2tcAhOYA?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at Â鶹´«Ã½West O\u2018ahu begins\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Media Facility at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> reached a milestone of the installation of its final beam, and to mark the occasion, supporters marked the beam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[21,112,549,202,59,56],"class_list":["post-103902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-21st-century-facilities","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-creative-media","tag-facilities","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902","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=103902"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112524,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902\/revisions\/112524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}