GAZETTE
July 17, 2013 Volume 45 Number 17
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ENGAGEMENT AT WORK
GOAL SETTING
TOXIC LEGACIES History faculty member receives
Pharmacy students dribble, shoot and spike their way through demanding academics and athletics.
major SSHRC grant to study arsenic pollution in Northwest Territories.
CHRIS HAMMOND PHOTO
How Memorial is helping the growing immigrant population in Labrador West adjust to the Big Land.
Kent Decker, vice-president (administration and finance), in front of the location for Memorial’s core sciences infrastructure project. Mr. Decker is the chair of the core sciences building steering committee.
‘Synergies among disciplines’ Memorial advances core sciences infrastructure project By Dave Sorensen
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
“The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is
reviewed. One preliminary concept has already been
currently in the second year of its eight-year growth
presented to the core sciences building steering com-
has decided on the
plan for the doubling of our academic and research
mittee for discussion. That committee is being chaired
location of planned core sciences infrastructure on its
capacities,” said Dr. Greg Naterer, dean, Faculty of
by Kent Decker, vice-president (administration and
St. John’s campus.
Engineering and Applied Science. “The new building
finance).
While there was some discussion to situate the new
will allow for additional engineering space to meet the
“The committee has looked at the basic concept for
facilities on two different campus locations, the uni-
province’s need to expand engineering undergraduate,
the combination of efficiency of design, both in terms
versity will move forward with the single-site option.
graduate and research activities, particularly in strate-
of mechanical systems for the building as well as the lay-
The new building, which will be located on the north
gic areas of ocean technology, offshore petroleum and
out to make the best use of our most valuable resource,
side of campus, on what is now lot 16/16A, will house
Arctic resources.”
the people inside the building,” said Dr. Abrahams.
various units within Memorial’s faculties of Science and Engineering and Applied Science. “The single-site option was chosen primarily because of the cost of construction,” said Dean of Science Mark
In late 2012, Memorial retained the consultant team
Once approval for architectural planning has been
of Stantec Architecture in association with Resource
granted, it will take at least another year for that process
Planning Group Inc. (RPG) to conduct a functional
to take place, with an additional four-year build time.
space planning study of the core sciences project.
“Simply opening this building is not the end of the
Abrahams. “Lot 16/16A next to the University Centre
Their project tasks included defining the type of work
project,” said Dr. Abrahams. “It has a domino effect
was the only green-field we considered that could rea-
to be conducted in the building, the space necessary to
on the entire campus. As that building opens, we will
sonably accommodate the entire facility.”
accommodate these functions including a facility pro-
decant units into the building, which frees up space that
gram, a potential building design and an order-of-mag-
will then trigger renovations within existing building.
The single large building will promote consolidation and complementarities among the different types of science research as the university moves towards a more interdisciplinary model.
nitude project cost estimate. Memorial officials received the final draft of the functional space planning study in May and it is now being
See SYNERGIES on page 5