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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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biology and the entire space now occupied by the Department of Microbiology can be made available for the needed future expansion of the College of Dentistry. This proposed location of the new Medical Sciences Addition first phase will_ also provide appropriate expansion of the Departments of Biological Chemistry, Pathology, and Microbiology. In order to provide for future campus development, a portion of the first floor will be designed for clinics in accordance with the campus development program. Enrollment estimates for 1969 anticipate a 27 per cent increase in enrollment in the Colleges of Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, paramedical curricula, and graduate student programs, with a corresponding expansion of the existing instructional programs, the establishment of new instructional programs where needed, and a proportionate expansion of research in basic science fields. It should be emphasized that two hundred freshman students are now enrolled annually in the College of Medicine. This enrollment represents a 20 per cent increase in the freshman enrollment in the College of Medicine since 19SS. Since there was no corresponding expansion of the physical facilities to accommodate these enlarged classes, the departments of the basic medical sciences have been confronted with increasing difficulties in the procurement and the holding of an adequate teaching faculty to properly carry out the educational responsibilities the College o£ Medicine has already undertaken. In view of the fact that these same departmental faculties will have the responsibility for increasing numbers of students in other colleges, as noted above, it would appear logical to assign the first priority of new construction needs for the Chicago Professional Colleges campus to the proposed Medical Sciences Addition. Project — Physical Plant Service Building, First Stage Appropriation request $2,120,000; Gross Square Feet 133,000, The Physical Plant Department, upon completion of the proposed building, will vacate approximately 89,000 gross square feet of building space for reassignment to others and to provide land areas required for sites for construction by the College of Engineering. Physical Plant service facilities of new and modern construction are urgently needed to replace the present inadequate, widely scattered, and poorly located areas now in use. The replacement of these facilities is urgently needed to reduce operation and maintenance costs, to provide adequate working space to meet service requirements of present and proposed building, to eliminate present potential fire and physical hazards to life and property, and to enable the University to maintain a siandard equal to that required of private industry by state law. Service facilities are now inadequately housed in sixteen buildings, or portions thereof, in congested and widely-separated areas. There are seven shops located in five different buildings which, by reason of their potential fire, safety, and health hazards, poorly arranged and limited work area, physical obsolescence, and lack of proper storage, locker, toilet, and washroom facilities, should be removed to a new location at the earliest possible time. Four of these shops are located in buildings not suitable for shop use. The remaining shops and stores and the administrative offices occupy space that can be converted for other uses. The decentralization of present facilities results in delays and increased cost of all Physical Plant services. This results in nonproductive time of all employees for travel to and from shops and offices; the duplication of equipment, records, and, in some instances, personnel; the rehandling of materials and supplies; and makes close supervision extremely difficult and costly. The absence of safe and secure storage and yard space results in damage to and loss and theft of materials and supplies, and in the rapid deterioration of expensive equipment through exposure to the elements. The present facilities can not be expanded to meet the requirements and work load resulting from the construction of new buildings and the general expansion of the University programs. It is estimated that the anticipated economies in operation and maintenance expenditures, resulting from the provision of new facilities, will produce an annual saving of $75,000 to $100,000 or perhaps more. Project — Electrical Engineering Building Addition Appropriation request $1,300,000; Gross Square Feet 34,500. The needs for building space in Electrical Engineering, accruing over the past ten years, have become even more critical during the past three years. Since 1957