U-M considers $45 million in building projects

metromode, 12/18/2008

It seems like there is always some sort of major construction project on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus. A quick look at the college town's skyline reveals the ever-present view of sky cranes.

Construction may just see a boom as tonight the University's Board of Regents consider approving seven new projects worth $45 million.

The projects under consideration are:

$4.8 million for a 10,000-square-foot expansion of the Engineering School's Engineering Program Building on North Campus.
$20 million for an expansion of the Museum of Zoology and relocation of most of its "wet" collection to the University Stores building.
$4 million to renovate and retrofit the guest rooms the Business Administration Executive Dormitory.
$5.3 million to create a ultra-low vibration research laboratory in the basement level of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building.
$2 million to $2.8 million to create soccer fields on 12.5 acres next to the Varsity Tennis Center.
$4.2 million to renovate 6,400 square feet of General Clinical Research Center at the U-M Hospital into the Cardiovascular Center.
$4.5 million to renovate another 1,700 square feet of U-M Hospital to make room for new positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners.

Most of these projects are set to begin early next year and finish toward the later end of 2009.

Source: University of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke

Ann Arbor