Geoffrey Chatas,
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The College of Pharmacy Building was constructed in 1960, with a major addition built in 1992. The building’s narrow structural bays and shallow floor-to-floor heights do not allow for the reconfiguration needed for modern research and teaching laboratory spaces or modern classrooms. In addition, the building is not large enough to meet the College of Pharmacy’s space needs. As such, the college’s teaching, research, and office spaces are distributed across seven campus locations. The construction of a new teaching and research facility (the New Building for the College of Pharmacy) will address its need to modernize and increase its physical space for academic, research, and student support functions. A new 142,000-gross-square-foot building located on the corner of Glen Avenue and East Huron Street will house active learning-style classrooms, laboratories, associated support spaces, faculty and administrative offices, and student-focused areas. The project is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification.