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Messer Construction Set to Deliver $100M Campus Facility
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Builders at the Miami University of Ohio campus planned a convenient location for the new Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness facility. When completed, the 165,000sq.-ft. structure would be positioned close to Miami’s Recreational Sports Center, Goggin Ice Arena and Phillips Hall.
By Chuck MacDonald CEG CORRESPONDENT
Sometimes the right place to put a building is where it is convenient. Even when it is inconvenient. Builders at the Miami University of Ohio campus planned a convenient location for the new Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness facility. When completed, the 165,000-sq.-ft. structure would be positioned close to Miami’s Recreational Sports Center, Goggin Ice Arena and Phillips Hall. The three wings of the Health
Sciences facility will connect three academic programs and three clinics. The south wing will contain Miami’s TriHealth employee and student health centers, the speech and hearing clinic and student counseling. The middle wing will contain offices, inter-professional lounges and laboratories for speech and audiology. The north wing will house speech and audiology academic programs, nursing and physician associate (PA) training. Locating the nursing and PA programs should benefit both disciplines and establish new norms for how these students will inter-
act. The construction of the building was begun during the pandemic and will open in spring 2023. Construction was coordinated by Messer Construction at the cost of about $100 million. Many of the students using the new building live on campus within walking distance. However, patients using the facility often will be driving, so the building was located close to a street and parking garage. All these conveniences came at a cost. Among the inconveniences was that this location was the site
of the student/faculty health clinic and student counseling service department. Construction workers renovated another space on campus to house these clinics, then demolished the original structures. Excess Water Another inconvenience about this prime location was the high water table. As the foundations were installed, workers built a dewatering system. Much like a French drain for a house, the system pumped water into a large underground retention vault. Planners designed the water to then
be redirected as “graywater” for watering plants and other nondrinking use on campus. Cody Powell, associate vice president of facilities planning and operation of the university, worked closely with the construction team. “The three wings of the facility are connected, which will support easy access to the classrooms, simulation labs and administrative functions,” he said. The form of the building with the three wings will lend easily to construction that might come later. see FACILITY page 6