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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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Veterinary Medicine Hospital Estimated total cost $10 022 800 State funds ($ 5 772 800) Non-State funds ($ 4 250 000) Gross square feet 119 426 Net assignable square feet 71 641 Building efficiency 60% The Veterinary Medicine Hospital is the second stage in a long-range plan to create an integrated complex of structures for the State's only College of Veterinary Medicine. T h e proposed building will be located adjacent to the new Small Animal Clinic and Hospital (now under construction), and will house the teaching, research, extension, and public service activities of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine in the areas of large animal medicine and surgery. Completion of this structure will provide the clinical facilities required to bring enrollment in the professional curriculum to an entering class of 100. This facility is planned for the simultaneous hospitalization, examination, and treatment of approximately 170 farm animals, chiefly cattle, horses, swine, and sheep. Planning funds for this project were provided in the 1967-69 biennium, and working drawings should be available by July 1969. Through the National Institutes of Health, under P.L. 89-290 (Veterinary Medical Education Act of 1966), this project will qualify for approximately $4,250,000 in federal funds, or more than 40 per cent of the project cost. An application for an N I H federal grant was submitted in June 1968. This facility is programmed to provide the following types and amounts of space: Type of Net Assignable Space Square Feet Instructional laboratory 2 851 Office 6 546 Research 5 303 Storage 3 090 Commons 3 025 Clinic 48 326 Classrooms 2 500 Total 71 641 The enrollment capacity of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the completion of the Veterinary Medicine Hospital will be as follows: FTE Enrollment Capacity Graduate-Professional Headcount Grad. Grad. Grad. Grad. F-S J-S Prof. I II Total Prof. I II Total .. 13 408 14 23 458 375 25 43 443 No space would be released as the result of the completion of this project, since the existing clinical facilities will be remodeled into basic sciences laboratories for use in accommodating the larger entering class in the professional veterinary program. Other Capital Projects Power Plant Addition $3 414 400 On January 1, 1968, there was a deficiency in firm steam capacity of 10,000 lbs./hour on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Although this condition does not presently seriously affect the campus steam supply, it will become critical as the buildings approved for construction in 1965-67 and 1967-69 are completed and occupied. T o meet the additional demands for steam created by the completion of these new buildings, Boiler No. 8, with the capacity of 200,000 lbs./hour, must be added in the 1969-71 biennium. Every precaution will be taken to maintain the present boilers in first-class condition until the new boiler enters service in late 1971, because the system will be operating under an estimated 145,000 lbs./ hour steam deficit at that time. In addition, Abbott Power Plant will require improvements to comply with