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By Paul Mayne
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Start saving cardboard boxes because there will be a lot of trading spaces over the next year or so.
 
With two major projects underway – modernization of Stevenson and Lawson Halls and a new building for the Richard Ivey School of Business – centrally located space will be opened up in Talbot College, the current Ivey building, Social Science Centre and Somerville House.
 
“It’s time to get the tape measures out and start seeing which office you might like to have in that building,” Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Fred Longstaff said last week at Senate.
 
Construction of the new Richard Ivey School of Business building is being done in two phases. Phase 2, which requires substantial fundraising by Ivey, is well on track, allowing Longstaffe to say we “can now put a schedule around when the current Ivey building will become available for use by other academic members of Western.”
 
Projected to move into the current Ivey building (when vacated by Business) are the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and School of Nursing.
 
“It’s moved to the top position for the home of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies,” says Longstaffe. “We’re recommending FIMS be re-located from its current, and I would have to say rather crowded, location in the North Campus Building, to the current Ivey when it becomes vacated.”
 
Longstaffe also outlined other projected re-allocations:
 
·         With the relocation of FIMS from the North Campus Building (NCB) to the current Ivey Building, the NCB space released by FIMS will go to the Faculty of Science.
 
·        With relocation of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing from the Health Sciences Addition to the current Ivey Building, the space released by Nursing will go to the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.
 
·         Remaining space in the current Ivey Building will accommodate new and/or expanding Interdisciplinary/Advanced Study Initiatives, and allow for growth in FIMS and Nursing.
 
·         When Philosophy and Classical Studies relocate to Stevenson and Lawson Halls, vacated space in Talbot College will go to the Don Wright Faculty of Music and accommodate a Music Library expansion.
 
·         History will relocate to Lawson Hall, opening space in the Social Science Centre for expanding Faculty of Social Science programs.
 
·         Women’s Studies and Feminist Research will relocate to Lawson Hall, releasing space in Somerset House for the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (currently in Natural Sciences).
 
·         Relocation of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will open space in Natural Science for the new location of the Centre for Brain and Mind.
 
In addition, closure and demolition of the Staging Building and former Services Building have been recommended due to poor quality and being unsuitable for future academic use.
 
“Having more space than you truly need really adds to the operating costs of the university and takes away from the availability of funding for all kinds of other purposes,” says Longstaffe.
 
Western has now begun the transition into the Long Range Space Plan 2, with “lots of aspirations as to what we want to do” being divided into five categories including:
 
·        Underway or soon-to-start: new Ivey building, Physics & Astronomy building renovations and WindEEE.
 
·        Must do within next five years: renewal of current Ivey building, residence expansion and renewal of University College.
 
·        High priority (relying on government funding): renewal of Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Spencer Engineering Building and Elborn College.
 
·        High priority (funding needs to be secured): expansion of medical school facilities, realignment and expansion of library facilities, and the Interdsciplinary Advanced Studies Building.
 
·        For future consideration (if funding identified): a Family Medicine building, athletics facility (indoor/outdoor) and performing arts facility.  
 

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