Strategic Planning of Resources

A functional and comfortable physical environment

We want to offer our students and staff a physical environment conducive to learning, discovering, inventing, creating and working. We also want to invite our community to participate more fully in life of the University.

Build or acquire additional space

To ensure that the needs of our growing student population are met.
To ensure that our current and future leaders can promote our strategic areas of development in research.
To ensure that newly recruited staff have appropriate work and lab space.
To ensure that the University and external communities participate more actively in our various performing arts, elite sports, physical fitness, scholarly events and other programs.

Consolidate similar activities, programs and services in adjacent spaces

To ensure the sharing of ideas and learning experiences.
To ensure that synergy and efficiency are maximized.

Address deferred maintenance and facility obsolescence

To ensure an adequate level of comfort and functionality.
To ensure energy conservation and sustainable development.
To ensure easier access for persons with physical disabilities.

By 2010, our students will benefit from more quality and functional communal space to study, share ideas and enjoy their university experience. There will be additional space to accommodate the increase in academic and support staff, as well as the development of research and graduate studies. Our physical environment will be more comfortable and functional, and will serve as an example in areas such as energy conservation and sustainable development. The main campus will be greener and more pedestrian friendly, and will showcase our architectural heritage, thus enhancing the beauty of our urban space. Finally, our Health Sciences Centre campus will boast enhanced student services.

Main Initiatives Proposed

Complete the construction of the multidisciplinary building that will house the School of Management as well as the administration and some departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Complete the Roger Guindon Hall expansion project to accommodate the rapid growth in health sciences, medical research and graduate studies. Renovate Vanier Hall to meet the needs of our growing graduate student population and of our experimental researchers working with animal models. Complete new laboratories in the Biosciences Complex to house research in catalysis, other scientific research and learning activities. Expand the Residential Complex to meet the needs of our growing student population and to create an International House to enhance the university experience for international students. Provide more communal student space to facilitate studying, the sharing of ideas and community life. Relocate academic units presently on King Edward Avenue to the core of our main campus. Renovate and expand the University Centre to accommodate a greater variety of student activities in a more comfortable and functional setting. Renovate and reconfigure the Morisset Library to house an Information Commons that supports new learning strategies. Cooperate with the Sandy Hill community to expand the Sports Complex so that we can provide additional physical fitness and intra-mural sport facilities for our student population. Build or acquire facilities to house conferences, an art gallery and performing arts events. Collaborate with the City of Ottawa in building a light rail transit station adjacent to the main campus, to reduce pressures on parking facilities and to ease access for students and staff. Revitalize our properties on King Edward Avenue for the use of our students, staff and neighbouring community. Acquire lands adjacent to the Health Sciences Centre campus to accommodate future growth in health sciences and medical research, with an emphasis on our strategic areas of development in research.

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