Purdue University
Veterinary Medical
Summer 1992
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EAST ELEVATION
Breaking New Ground in Veterinary IVIedicine:
Construction of Addition to Begin in Spring!
Groundbreaking for a new addition
to Lynn Hall is planned for spring
1993, following the State Budget
Committee's approval of the 33.4 million dollar project last May. The
committee's vote gave the final green
light for the long-awaited School of Veterinary Medicine expansion.
Purdue administrators have placed
the project on a very fast track in an effort
to take advantage of favorable economic
conditions, according to Tom Schmenk,
director of Facilities Planning. Plans call
for completion of the addition in July
1995.
The addition will rise as high as
three stories above ground, providing
more than 60,000 square feet of new
assignable space. Of that, 23,000 square
feet will house academic facilities, including new classrooms and teaching
laboratories, a 200-seat multi-media lecture hall, and a new Biomedical Informa
tion Resource Center which will replace
the existing library. The expansion also
will provide space for modern molecular
biology and cell biology laboratories as
well as other facilities necessary for scientific investigations. Incompliance with
new federal law, the facility will be fully
accessible to the handicapped.
The Veterinary Teaching Hospital,
will expand by 24,000 square feet, providing more space for diagnostic imaging
and clinical pathology areas. The large
animal facilities will include an equine
center to serve the state's expanding horse
industry; expanded and modernized surgery facilities; a new theriogenology (reproduction) unit that will help producers
increase reproductive efficiency; and an
expanded livestock production medicine
unit. The expanded Small Animal Hospital will house new exam and treatment
rooms, an updated surgery unit, and an
expanded critical care facility.
In the existing facility, 13,000 square
feet will be renovated to house a center
forclinical investigations, an educational
research laboratory for development of
new teaching materials and technologies,
and offices. Plans call for the renovation
to be completed in Spring 1996.
Purdue President Steven C. Beering
credits many agricultural leaders and veterinarians throughout Indiana with playing a significant role in the process of
winning state approval for the project.
Dean Hugh B. Lewis says, "We are grateful for the confidence that the State Legislature and the people of Indiana have
shown in us. This addition to our facilities will enable us to continue to graduate
excellent veterinarians and to provide
state-of-the-art veterinary support services well into the next century."
- by Kevin Doerr
Purdue News Service also contributed to this story.