NEW CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION ON THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO CAMPUS AFFECTING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (ES) DEPARTMENT

The University of Toledo Long Range Facilities Master Plan, designed to chart the course for the University as it looks to its future building and space needs over the next ten years, was unanimously approved by UT’s Board of Trustees at a special meeting on March 9, 2005.

The top three priority projects in the master plan are [in order of importance to the Department]: (1) construction of a new 176,000 sf Science Laboratory Building that will, among other things, serve as the new home for the ES Department; (2) Bowman-Oddy science laboratory rehabilitation [ES is currently located in this building and will continue to have a presence in it after the rehabilitation]; and (3) Field House rehabilitation and conversion into a classroom building [ES currently has laboratory and especially storage space in the Field House].

The combined estimated cost of these three projects is about $113 million.  In addition, a new research building will be constructed for the Agricultural Research Service (USDA), and some ES plant researchers will be housed in this facility.

For more information about these buildings as well as the architects' conceptual drawings use the following link to the University's “Facilities Master Plan Presentation”: http://facilitiesplanning.utoledo.edu/Master_Plan.asp.