FACT SHEET: HEDCO Education Building and College of Education Complex
LOCATION: The east side of Alder Street between East 16th and East 17th Avenues, between the historic education buildings at 1571 Alder Street and the college’s Clinical Services Building on East 18th Avenue
TOTAL PROJECT COST: $48.1 million, $26.3 from private gifts, $2 million from the university, and $19.4 million in general obligation bonds authorized by the 2005 Oregon Legislative Assembly
BUDGET DETAILS:
- New construction: $22.6 million
- Renovation of historic education buildings: $5.5 million
- Parking (includes structured parking located under the new building): $4.1 million
- Campus improvements: $1.9 million
- Building equipment and furnishings: $2.5 million
- Works of art: $341,000
- Design, management, landscaping, networking, fees, permits: $11.2 million
TIMELINE: Move-in is anticipated in the summer of 2009
FEATURES:
- Three stories; 65,000 gross square feet plus structured parking beneath the new building
- New classrooms, clinics, a student learning commons, distance learning space and other specialized teaching spaces including specially-equipped rooms for assessment and other teaching methods
- Replacement of “temporary” trailers, some of which have been in use more than 30 years
- Infrastructure to support future technological advancements in interactive learning
- Increased accessibility though the application of Universal Design (UD) principles to make the education complex usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without adaptation or specialized design
PROJECT ARCHITECTS: Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. with Walker Macy Landscape
CONTRACTOR: Lease Crutcher Lewis
CONTACT: Julie Brown, 541-346-3185, julbrown@uoregon.edu