CURRENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Vanier Hall renovations and new Social Sciences Building
Construction of the Faculty of Social Sciences Building announced in May 2009 and jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments and uOttawa, is well on its way.
The new $112.5 million environmentally innovative facility and the renovation of existing Vanier Hall will provide an additional 22,000 square metres of much-needed learning and research space.
The new tower will house the Faculty of Social Sciences and will include research space in priority areas such as neuroscience and experimental psychology, economics, public policy and management.
The facility will feature a number of new multimedia classrooms and significant new student spaces throughout. A 225-seat classroom and a large multi-purpose hall are proposed for the upper levels. The new Faculty of Social Sciences Building was designed to be expanded incrementally in the future and to eventually replace Vanier Hall with a larger facility.
Facts
- Vanier Hall will provide 7,541 square metres of usable space (occupancy targeted for fall 2010)
- The 15-storey Faculty of Social Sciences Building will provide an additional 11,700 square metres of usable space to our existing space inventory (occupancy targeted for fall 2011)
- Created by the architectural firm of Diamond and Schnitt, the new building will use a 90% efficiency heat recovery ventilation system
- 80% of the building’s heat will come from heat generated by centralized campus computers.
- The project is targeted to achieve certification at the gold level of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
The combined buildings will be able to house the following:
- 7,000 undergraduate students
- 1,000 graduate students
- 250 researchers and professors
Partners (external site)
Industry Canada (Knowledge Infrastructure Program)
Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
Consultants
Aecon Group Inc.
Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc.
KWC Architects Inc.
MHPM Project Managers Inc.