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UM Regents OK Expanded ISR Building

Chronicle Staff — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:25:15 +0000

An expanded building project for the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research was approved by UM regents at their July 19, 2012 meeting. The change includes increasing the project’s budget from $23 million to $29 million, and expanding the addition on the side of the ISR building to five stories covering 56,700 square feet. The original project, approved by regents in April 2010, called for a four-story addition of about 44,700 square feet.

The addition is adjacent to the existing ISR building at 426 Thompson St. – 7,200 square feet of that existing building will be renovated as part of the project. The expansion will be paid for in part by federal stimulus funds via a grant from the National Institutes of Health. According to a staff memo, it will allow the institute to house its research programs under one roof and accommodate continued growth, including an increase in federally funded initiatives.

This report was filed from the Michigan Union’s Rogel ballroom, where the board held its July meeting.

Design for New UM Nursing Bldg OK’d

Chronicle Staff — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:17:59 +0000

The schematic design of a new $50 million building for the University of Michigan School of Nursing was approved by UM regents at their July 19, 2012 meeting. Regents had approved the overall project in March. The school is currently located at 400 N. Ingalls, in a former hospital built in 1913. The new location will be nearby at the north end of Ingalls, near the Kingsley intersection. [.pdf of map showing location of the new nursing school]

The proposed 75,000-square-foot building will include instructional space, a clinical learning center, and simulated patient suites. The new building is intended to accommodate an additional 40 new faculty and staff members over the next five to ten years, according to a staff memo. The memo states that 125 parking spaces will be lost because of the construction, but that UM will be increasing the amount of parking in the nearby medical center campus, and will be using transit services to bring faculty, staff and students in from remote parking lots.

The architectural firm RDG Planning and Design will be handling the project’s design, and representatives from the firm gave a brief presentation at the July 19 board meeting. The school’s dean, Kathleen Potempa, attended the meeting but did not formally address the regents. Construction is expected to be done by the summer of 2015.

This report was filed from the Michigan Union’s Rogel ballroom, where the board held its July meeting.

Regents OK New UM Nursing Building

Chronicle Staff — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:52:50 +0000

A $50 million project to build a new facility for the University of Michigan School of Nursing was authorized unanimously by UM regents at their March 15, 2012 meeting. The school is currently located at 400 N. Ingalls, in a former hospital built in 1913. The new location will be nearby at the north end of Ingalls, near the Kingsley intersection. [.pdf of map showing location of the new nursing school]

The architectural firm RDG Planning and Design will be handling the project’s design.

This brief was filed from the Michigan Union’s Pendleton Room on UM’s Ann Arbor campus, where regents held their March meeting. A more detailed report will follow: [link]