A 188,600 sq. foot building to replace 56,611 sq. feet combined from the Garff and Madsen buildings.
Modern building equipped with quality information technology preparing students for today’s work environments.
Student-centered facility—70% student space.
Learning environment that facilitates group study and student interaction spaces
Provide student study places (survey found most common current student study area is their car).
Utah business histories and stories displayed and told throughout the building. Utah’s unique business legacies highlighted through documented video and artifact display.
Why
Recruit and retain top faculty and students.
Provide adequate space for growing student population.
Provide state-of-the art technology and facilities.
Replace current non-compliant ADA, seismic, mechanical and infrastructure building deficiencies.
Increase student spaces for optimal academic and social experience.
Additional classrooms benefitting the entire University.
Who
The building will primarily serve business students. The DESB currently serves over 2,500 undergraduates and over 700 graduate students (over 3,200 total students). The school awards approximately 1,200 degrees each year.
The building will allow for past and future business program growth. When the three original business buildings were constructed, the school served approximately 1,000 business students.
The building will support the entire University as classrooms are utilized campus-wide.
Where
The new building will be located just east of the C. Roland Christensen building. The four-floored building will provide beautiful views looking east toward the mountains and west to the downtown landscape.
When
Demolition has already begun and construction is scheduled to begin in late fall of 2009.
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How:
The $70-million building will be paid through both public and private donations.
About 70% funded through private donations and 30% approved through the state legislature.
A current George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Challenge match is providing an additional $1 for every $2 donated from the private sector.
Currently over 200 foundation, corporate and individual donors.
