There is an untold cost to the construction of this 61 million dollar facility.
1) Visual — metal cap to the old Physiology Department for the Old College of Medicine building just looks like someone did a really inexpensive sloppy job of making a new “front” to the historic, brick, and nice old building.
2) Tons of wasted space in the spear style architecture for the new building… good grief. If more space was an issue (which it really wasn’t, as I walk down the hallway to see empty offices in the old building) then this didn’t really accomplish what it might have. Not really usable space, ugly metal really is tasteless (almost as tasteless as the Vontz) spear looking thing…all glass (going to cost plenty to cool the interior of this building).
3) Metal addition to the entry way to Kettering (the Department of Environmental Health) does a poor job of connecting the vertical metal pointy architecture of the new Health Sciences Building with the old…
4) BUT THE REAL issue is the number of lost man hours of faculty, student, and staff as we walk half a mile around Messer Construction companies barricades (which twice upon query blamed on UC regulations). You can be sure that those extra minutes of walking and waiting for trucks to load and unload come out of UC time, not the employees time. ha ha… serves you right UC… when business and show, and not students and faculty, are a priority…. you will lose.