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Auburn U. Community Awaits New Facilities By Cindy Riley
Officials at Auburn University are eagerly awaiting completion of a new Health Sciences Sector, which will feature a new nursing school and pharmaceutical research building. The $29 million, 89,000 square-foot nursing facility and the $17 million, 38,000 square-foot Harrison School of Pharmacy structure are strategically located at the corner of South Donahue Drive and Lem Morrison Drive in Auburn, Ala. “The School of Nursing building offers state-of-the-art classrooms and lab spaces,” said Gregg Newschwander, dean of Auburn School of Nursing. “Often, when prospective students come to visit Auburn, they want first to see the simulation spaces. Ours are second to none. In a world where we are challenged to get students sufficient practice with patient management, skill performance and critical thinking and decision making, our simulation space will offer what we can’t guarantee our students in the clinical setting, in an environment just as complex and challenging as the real world. It will definitely help us recruit the best and brightest to Auburn.” University representatives and a number of leaders in health care broke ground on the new School of Nursing building in November 2015. Considered the gateway to the new Health Sciences Sector, the structure will provide spaces specifically designed to foster learning and research initiatives. For those who’ve been involved in the planning, the timing seemed right. “The combination of an aging population and an aging workforce will create a significant nursing shortage in the next 10 years,” said Newschwander. “As schools try to address the impending shortage of nurses, a third variable, the shortage of nursing faculty, comes into play. With the support of the administration, the School of Nursing started increasing the size of our classes about seven years ago. Early on, Auburn Provost Timothy Boosinger declared the new nursing building one of his top five facility priorities. Newschwander said the numbers tell the story. “We admitted 80 undergraduates per year in 2009, and now admit approximately 200 per year. That’s a 250 percent increase. In the graduate program, we’ve gone from about 12 students to over 150 in those seven years, some of which is an effort to ‘grow our own faculty’ to meet the increasing demand. As a result, we have no classroom in Miller Hall that can accommodate any of our cohorts. So, our students are spread across campus, and we’ve lost our sense of community, which really has been frustrating for everyone. We’ve also grown the faculty, and have run out of office space in Miller Hall.” By relocating to a building more than seven times larger than the current structure, the new School of Nursing will have plenty of room. With only 11,700 sq. ft. (1,086.9 sq m), Miller Hall has limited space for faculty offices, two simulation areas and a small auditorium. The new building will have a tiered auditorium, active learning classrooms, a student lounge, public spaces and more than three dozen faculty offices, as well as multiple small rooms for group meetings. Newschwander said the carefully considered location is an ideal fit. “President Gogue has talked about a health sciences complex for as long as I’ve been here, and probably longer. Placing us in close proximity to the pharmacy research building, the medical clinic, the MRI facility and the Via College of Medicine encour-
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Auburn Invests in Buildings Dedicated to Health Sciences AUBURN from page 1 “The new building should contribute to increasing the what was expected. This site had previously been manipulatages interprofessional collaboration, teaching and research. national ranking, since part of the formula that determines ed to ease access for tailgating. This resulted in fill being “The classrooms are built for lectures, but also for small the ranking is research funding. The additional research moved and placed on top of existing topsoil. The layer of soil group work, so students are more fully engaged in the class. space will improve our success in attracting outstanding and the original topsoil beneath had to be excavated and The active learning classroom allows student to learn with researchers and extramural research funding.” hauled off site. and from each other, building on their reading and out-ofEvans, who will step down from his position in the com“Also, both building pads were undercut and brought back class assignments. The skills lab and simulation suite are ing months, will continue making contributions to the pro- up with filter fabric and stone to get above a perched water absolutely state-of-the-art. We can now ‘create’ just about gram he’s been a part of for so long. table during the time of construction. Other areas of the site any patient illness through the use of the mannequins. In “This has never been a job, but a passion. My hope has were addressed with soil cement to stabilize the earth, and doing so, we can assure all students get to see and care for always been to improve the delivery of health care through then fill was placed on top of the remediated soil.” patients that perhaps only a few would in the hospital setting. education.” There were no utilities available to the site prior to conStacy Norman Architects of Auburn and Ayers Saint Hoar Program Management of Birmingham, Ala., was struction. Tyner said extra steps had to be taken to resolve the Gross of Baltimore, Md., provided architectural issue. services for the School of Nursing. “Hot and chilled water piping to heat and cool Newschwander and a faculty panel worked with the buildings were brought from the university’s the team to make certain the structure’s design energy plant approximately a half-mile away would solve the school’s space concerns, while from the installation points. Also, natural gas was also addressing learning and research needs. brought from this same area. We had to bring “I’m especially excited about the student power and communications to the buildings via spaces in the building. There is a large student underground duct banks. Water was tapped from commons area, for studying, socializing and just the main in a busy intersection and brought to the relaxing throughout our typically long days. job site,” said Tyner. There are a large number of small group study An estimated 15,600 cu. yds. (11,927 cu m) of rooms with large screens that allow students to soil was moved in total for the combined projects. study together without crowding around one perAmong the primary pieces of equipment being son’s computer.” used on the job are a scissor lift for installation of Newschwander praised members of the mechanical systems, lulls to provide materials in Auburn administration and the community, who the buildings, boom lifts for window installation are helping fund construction of the project. and a mast scaffold for the brick veneer. “It would also not be possible without the A motorgrader for fine grading the road for Jordan Tyner, Hoar program management photo incredible support of the faculty and staff, who Officials at Auburn University are eagerly awaiting completion of a new pavement has also been used during construction, saw student numbers rise precipitously, while fac- Health Sciences Sector, which will feature a new nursing school and phar- along with lifts to complete the building skin and ulty and staff numbers grew much more slowly.” maceutical research building. punch out the exterior. Some of the main materiLee Evans, Harrison School of Pharmacy als crews have been using include structural steel, dean, is also looking forward to the changes chosen to serve as construction manager for both construc- concrete, metal studs, cast iron, copper, gypsum board, brick ahead. tion projects. According to Jordan Tyner, PE, LEED AP, , precast, storefront and curtainwall glass, metal panels and “The campus has made significant strides in fostering col- Hoar program management, overseeing two projects at the shingles. laborative research across multiple disciplines. The new same time has required a bit of a juggling act. Tyner said the new pharmacy building has many mechanfacility will include resources that support the research mis“Both projects presented a unique individual challenge. ical systems to serve all the lab equipment, meaning that sion of the campus. The new building expands our research However, it makes it more difficult to manage both projects, coordination drawings were critical to ensure everything footprint, since the research facilities in the Walker building since there are different architects/engineers for each build- would fit in the place the first time, since there was a limited will continue to operate.” ing that have different specifications and materials required. amount available. The three-story pharmaceutical research building will We are constantly checking each set of drawings and speciClose to finalizing construction, crews are focusing on include pharmaceutical and interdisciplinary research labs fications for each building, to make sure that the owner is interior finishes and final grading for site work. Foundations, and support space. The primary researchers who will occu- getting what has been specified.” structural steel, concrete, interior/exterior framing, exterior py the building focus on oncology, cardiology and neurologTyner said the biggest obstacles for contractors during the skin, drywall and paint have already been completed; howical disorders. Individuals who work on drug synthesis and construction process has been the limited space and busy ever, workers must still test building systems for function. drug delivery will remain in the Walker Building. schedule. As far as constructing research labs and support space, “Harrison School of Pharmacy takes possession in May,” “With two buildings on the same site and most of the site Tyner said keeping all piping caped and clean is essential. said Evans. “New research space that facilitates the work of at the start of the project being occupied by the first contrac“When building places for sterile work environments, our faculty is very exciting. The faculty are already begin- tor installing the infrastructure portion of the project, this left extra care has to be taken to make sure we are providing ning to prepare for the move.” very limited laydown space. The schedule is aggressive, yet them with sterile buildings systems.” The highly anticipated new building is funded by gift achievable, and many seven-day work weeks have occurred With the new buildings scheduled to be finished by spring funds and budgeted dollars that have been accumulated for to meet the end date.” and summer of this year, Tyner, an Auburn graduate, said it’s the project for the past ten years. Currently, brick and precast is ongoing and drywall fin- rewarding to play a major role in projects that will serve stuThe Harrison School of Pharmacy offers the doctor of ishing and painting is occurring inside the nursing school dents and staff well into the future. pharmacy degree, as well as graduate degrees in pharmaceu- building. Structural steel, roofing, building skin and the “My brother is a nurse and my dad is a pharmacist, and tical sciences. The school has campuses both in Auburn and majority of interior mechanical and drywall has already both went to school in Auburn. This project will help continin Mobile, Ala. The Mobile campus is housed within the taken place. Tyner said a great deal of communication with ue and grow both departments that will benefit many people University of South Alabama Research Park, and is a collab- the university, contractor, designers and the end users has in the future. I’m happy to have been part of a experience orative venture with USA. been required to construct classrooms, simulation labs, clin- that will provide very rewarding and meaningful careers to Founded in 1885, Auburn’s pharmacy program is ranked ical and departmental space. the many students who will come through both buildings.” among the top 20 percent of all pharmacy schools in the “Both buildings required a significant amount of fill to be (This story also can be found on Construction country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Evans brought in,” said Tyner. “When stripping the site of topsoil, Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipsaid the number will likely rise moving forward. it was discovered the conditions were quite different than mentguide.com.) CEG
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