Over the summer, Buckhorn and Sunset Lodges received a $2.9 million renovation, according to Finance and Administration Vice President Amy Buxbaum.

JPT Architects of Johnstown, completed the architecture, CJL Engineering, of Johnstown, completed the engineering and construction was completed by Mosites Construction, of Pittsbrugh, according to Buxbaum.

Both lodges were built in 1978, Buxbaum said.

During a Pitt-Johnstown town hall meeting Sept. 26 at the John P. Murtha Center, Buxbaum said drainage systems and sprinklers were updated during the renovation.

She also said there was a renovation of all the lodges’ common spaces.

Junior Maura Brehl, who lived in a Buckhorn lodge during her sophomore year, said the building looked like an old fraternity house.

Brehl said there were holes in the drop-down ceiling tiles, chipped paint and inadequate water heaters.

Buckhorn lodges were not the only lodges in need of renovation, however.

Kappa Delta Rho member Jonathan Kopsick said that the Sunset Lodges needed a renovation, as well.

Kopsick lived in a Sunset lodge last semester.

“This place needed a renovation so badly. The doors, the holes in the walls, the black mold in the ceiling. Everything was broken,” Kopsick said.

Preparatory work for the construction began during finals week last semester, and on May 1, both the Buckhorn and Sunset lodges began renovations.

Throughout the next several weeks, new carpet was applied, roofs were installed and fire sprinklers were replaced.

In a document developed in 2014 called The Next Level: Distinctive Excellence, Strategic Plan 2014-2021, a seven-year plan for Pitt-Johnstown, renovations to the South Lodges were planned for sometime in 2017.

Construction was substantially complete in early August, according to Buxbaum.

Buxbaum said that, during the renovations, she was confident that everything would go smoothly.

She called the whole process a major facelift.