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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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Conversion to color television ($370,000). Funds are requested to provide the capability for color-television production, for instruction as well as for public service activities. The major portion of the funds requested ($345,000) will be needed for new color equipment, with the remainder ($25,000) required for upgrading existing "black-and-white" equipment. Color is universally accepted as the highly desirable medium for television instruction in medicine and the related health sciences and professions. Televised instruction of surgical procedures in color adds important educational realism which is absent when shown only in black and white. Significant health-related information now televised to the public in black and white by commercial stations will be lost as these stations change to color only, unless the taped programs can be presented to the station in color. Planning 1971-73 $1 145 000 Funds are requested to provide consultation, architectural, and engineering services for projects essential to the development of the programs at the Medical Center campus. These projects include hospital construction and remodeling, remodeling of space to be vacated by the College of Dentistry, building-equipment automation and air-conditioning, and continuation of campus master planning. Research and Educational Hospitals ($650,000). The Hospital Planning Council for Metropolitan Chicago has recently issued a document entitled "Structural and Functional Obsolescence Report: University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals," which attests to the substandard conditions that exist throughout most of these buildings. The report presents what the University considers to be a very conservative estimate of $15,831,444 for the remodeling and modernization necessary "to eliminate structural and functional obsolescence." The changes proposed might well be sufficient to bring the Hospitals up to acceptable standards as a "community hospital," but such modernization would not enable the facility to meet the rigorous architectural and technological requirements of a modern "research and educational hospital." Hence, the University requests the sum of $650,000 with which t o : (a) conduct a systematic study of the role and functions of its Hospitals within the Medical Center, the Chicago metropolitan area, and the State; (b) develop the concept and a detailed program for a hospital complex that would enable the University adequately to discharge its teaching and research responsibilities; (c) develop architectural plans for remodeling and new construction in sufficient detail to be submitted to federal agencies with applications for matching grants. Plans for remodeling space to be vacated by the College of Dentistry ($290,000). This space will not be available for remodeling until the College of Dentistry can occupy the first phase of its new facilities, which are scheduled to be completed near the end of the calendar year 1970. The funds requested herein will provide for architectural services required to prepare the project for bidding at the beginning of the 1971-73 biennium. The remodeled space will be allocated to the College of Medicine, which has acute needs that can thus be met at a cost substantially less than that for new construction. Modernization plans for utility systems ($175,000). Complete engineering services are requested to prepare plans for automation of building equipment and centralized air-conditioning systems. This utility planning will substantially reduce long-range capital and operating costs. Campus master-plan studies ($30,000). Funds are also requested to continue studies of the long-range campus plan to permit effective integration of complex educational, research, and service functions conducted at the Medical Center campus. The funds requested will provide consulting services to expand and update the campus master plan. Remodeling, Rehabilitation, and Minor Additions $1 785 000 The major portion of these funds are requested for remodeling space to be vacated by the College of Nursing, and for administrative offices which will be reassigned to the College of Medicine. Approximately 100,000 net square feet of existing building space will become available to the College of Medicine in two phases. T h e first phase of remodeling will provide about 32,000 net square feet at a cost substantially less than new construction. Included in the request are remodeling projects for the Research and Educational Hospitals: space for an organ transplant program, expansion of the new-