UM Health Sciences Building Renovation OK’d
At its April 19, 2012 meeting, the University of Michigan board of regents authorized a $55 million renovation of the building that now houses the A. Alfred Taubman Health Sciences Library, located at 1135 E. Catherine St.
According to a staff memo, a large portion of the library’s less frequently used collections will be moved off-site. That will free up about two floors of the building to house a smaller library collection and increased health sciences instructional space, including a clinical skills and simulation suite, and spaces for computing, study, and faculty and student services. A total of about 137,000 square feet will be renovated. TMP Architecture Inc. and Ballinger will design the project.
This brief was filed from the Michigan Union’s Rogel ballroom, where the … [Full Story]