The New Freshmen Residence Hall project includes an eight-story tower and a four-story wing totaling 217,000 square feet with 714 beds. The structure is cast-in-place concrete frames with two-way flat plate post-tensioned slabs supported on a mat foundation system. A second adjacent hall “Residence Hall 2020” mirrors the NFR Hall. The 231,000 square foot structure includes 730 beds with six, seven, and eight story towers. Both halls contain ICC-500 tornado shelters. Foundations for NFR Hall are a concrete mat foundation and the foundations for RH2020 are a combination of drilled piers bearing on rock and H piles bearing on rock.