U-M regents sign off on slew of new projects

The long awaited renovation of Crisler Arena grabbed all of the headlines from the last week's Board of Regents meeting at the University of Michigan, but a number of other significant projects also received the green light.

Among those are:

The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute plans to renovate its second floor of its laboratory building on Fletcher Street. The 10,000-square-foot project will create modern research laboratory space that will complement work done on the building's second floor. The $11.1 million project will be designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent. A construction time table has yet to be determined.
Couzens Hall will undergo a $49 million renovation that is expected to wrap up in the summer of 2011. The project on the university's Hill area will update the 180,000-square-foot building's mechanical systems and make it ready for the 21st Century. That includes high-speed wireless access for the dormitory's 560 students.
The North Campus Research Complex (the old Pfizer campus) will receive $1.8 million in freshening up. About 92,000 square feet of the building will be repainted and have new carpet installed by this spring.

Source: University of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke