ACHIEVEMENTS
DESMARAIS HALL
Located in the heart of Ottawa, at the intersections of Laurier avenue, Waller and Nicholas streets, Desmarais hall houses the Telfer School of Management and several departments of the Faculty of Social sciences. The hall welcomed their students, as scheduled, for the September 2007 classes.
The twelve-storey, $80M building includes several large lecture halls, study and student lounges, a splendid main lobby with a bright atrium as well as a café and access to a major transit station.
The first eleven floors are allocated to the academic programs, namely: graduate & undergraduate secretariats, classrooms, labs, graduate student offices, research as well as professors' and administrative office spaces for both the Faculty of Social sciences and the Telfer School of Management. Desmarais Hall provides student spaces for both faculties i.e.: study spaces, association offices, student lounges for both graduate and undergraduate programs and a small resource center.
The 12th floor is currently shell space for future development.
FACTS AND FIGURES
DESMARAIS HALL
September, 2007
- The new building is constructed on the former parking lot bounded by Laurier Avenue, Waller and Nicholas streets, in downtown Ottawa.
- The project cost is $80 million.
- The building is the new home of the Telfer School of Management and several departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
- On a lot of 41,800 square metres, this building has a two-level parking garage with 141 parking spaces and eleven floors of offices and classrooms. The total area of the building is 23,015m².
- The ground floor has seven lecture halls with a total seating of 710, the Academic Secretariat for the Telfer School of Management.
- The second floor holds computer labs, undergraduate student lounges and association spaces for both faculties.
- The fourth floor is a mix of MBA classrooms, office space and a large multipurpose hall.
- The fifth, sixth and seventh floors are reserved for office space, and research labs for the Telfer School of Management.
- Third and eighth to eleventh floors were constructed for Social Sciences:
Third: Dean’s office; academic secretariats; research space Eight to eleventh: Offices & research space including graduate student space for Economics; Political Studies; Sociology and Anthropology; International Development and Globalization.
- Twelfth floor will be used as shell space for the time being.