Elements of the Facilities Renewal Program

Symons Campus

Highlights of the plan include extensive construction and renovations at the Symons campus in Peterborough:

• Construct a new Student Commons building, identified in the consultations as a priority need for the campus, providing new student space and accommodations for  a variety of student support services.
• Renovate and expand the Athletics Complex to include a new Sports Medicine Clinic, integrate the facility with the new Student Commons. 
• Add a third module to house new science space to the existing DNA complex. 
• Create additional social science and Teacher Education space, 21,000 square feet.
• Renovate sections of the first and second floors of the Bata Library, relocate archive records, reorganize library stacks - repatriate space currently used for administrative departments for library services.

Traill College

As part of the approved Facilities Renewal Plan, the Board voted to retain and repurpose Traill College as a primarily graduate studies college.  The date for the planned conversion from undergraduate, to a primarily graduate studies college, is set for September 2009.  Under the plan the University will:

• Convert residences rooms in Wallis Hall and Scott House for use as offices for 100 graduate students and 14 new apartments, graduate students offices and faculty offices.
• Sell Langton Hall and Bradburn House. 
• Invest in priority building improvements and deferred maintenance issues.