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CONSORTIUM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INFORMATICS AND ART (CERIA) updated 4/9/2004
PROJECT DESCRIPTION At its inception, the entire project was to renovate 34,500 sq ft of existing space and add 31,000 new sq ft in the facility formerly occupied by the campus bookstore. The total project area of 65,550 square feet brings together the College of Fine Arts-Media Arts program (teaching space, studios, offices and support) and the Department of Biology (specimen based research laboratories, research training space, collections, office and support), the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) and the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program. The two divisions share a Technology Center in which biologists record, catalog and study specimens, ecology1, climates and disease, and Media Artists use a studio for technologically new art forms. Approximately 30,000 sq ft of the project were constructed as shell space to be built out at a future time. Phase II builds out that shell space consisting of Laboratories, Computer Instruction Space, Collection Areas, Offices and Support Space. The project began in November 2003 and is scheduled to be finished by August 2004.
RATIONALE The decision to collocate Biology and Fine Arts in this facility culminated two years of planning by the UNM administration to identify academic divisions that demonstrated the potential for collaboration and interdisciplinary activity and who would be well served by instruction/research space in this precinct of the campus. This project adapts a 25-year-old facility for reuse as a teaching and research center and in the process, about 18,000 sq ft of teaching laboratory and classroom space is recaptured in the existing Biology Building for general instructional purposes.
FUNDING The project budget is $3,200,000 and will be funded by FY 2003 State of NM General Obligation Bond proceeds. Architect Garrett Smith, Ltd Constructor ESA Construction,
Inc UNM Project Representative Lou Castillo, UNM Facility Planning, 277-2236 Extimated Completion Date September 2004
Sabra Jane Basler/Kamesh
Tangirala MSC05 3330 1801 Roma Avenue
NE, Room 128 Telephone:
(505) 277-7590
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