Though most Elon University students scattered for the summer at the end of the last school year, the campus was far from quiet during the summer months. The shouts of students were replaced by the whirring of power tools as several buildings sprang up and older facilities were renovated throughout campus.

Frequent, heavy rain slowed the progress of construction crews during the summer, but most projects were dried-in by then, or protected from the elements by windows and roofing. The parking lots were hit the hardest, as crews were unable to make progress for much of the summer.

As a result, the planned Historic Neighborhood parking lot will be unavailable to residents indefinitely from the start of the school year and beyond. Residents of the Historic Neighborhood will instead be issued temporary parking in the East Gym lot as well as unassigned spaces on Lebanon Avenue. Another new parking lot near the old softball field, slated for August completion, will be pushed back to early September.

But inclement weather didn’t slow the progress of the emerging Global Neighborhood, as the three floors of Global Houses 4 and 5 receive the finishing touches and await the arrival of 200 new residents in the coming weeks. Global Buildings 1, 2 and 3 are on schedule for an August 2014 finish, as is the commons building that will house the Isabella Cannon Global Education Center.

South O’Kelly Avenue is the new home of the R.N. Ellington Center for Health and Wellness. Its 14,000 square feet make up the new home for both the student and faculty and staff health and wellness centers. The two were previously separate.

Notable additions include a blood and allergy lab and a pharmacy capable of dispensing medication on site. Elon’s counseling service is also now housed in the Ellington Center.

“As technology in the health industry moves forward, we need to make sure to keep up with it to best meet the physical, mental and emotional health of our students,” said Brad Moore, director of planning, design and construction management at Elon.

At the heart of campus, Moseley Center is in the midst of an extensive renovation process that will redesign what was formerly Octagon Cafe and the Hearth Lounge into a new student center with space for offices for student organizations, study areas and a gathering space for meetings and movie screenings planned in conjunction with the Student Government Association.

In the meantime, a partition has been created so students can walk from Moseley into Lakeside Dining Hall. The renovations are expected to be complete for a late September or early October re-opening.

“[Moseley] was always supposed to be a four-month job,” Moore said. “We started at the end of the school year, and by now the space has been framed and sheetrocked, which is time intensive. Now comes the major plumbing and electrical revisions.”