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Questions? --Call UM Architecture, Engineering, and Construction hotline: 734-615-8440. --Send an e-mail to: sph.construction@umich.edu SPH Contacts Terri Mellow, Director, Office
of Communications Jim Kennedy, Facilities Manager Phone: (734) 936-6803 E-mail: jimmiek@umich.edu Media Coverage University Record, October 31, 2006: "A Healthy New Crossroads" photos from the opening ceremony Michigan Daily, September 27, 2006: A UM architecture student reviews the new SPH Crossroads and Tower building.
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Celebrating the Crossroads & Tower
At a ceremony in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Thursday, October 26, 2006, University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean Kenneth Warner officially declared the school's new Crossroads and Research Tower open to the public. The new UM SPH facility houses 8,000 square feet of classroom space, 17 conference rooms, and 133 laboratory benches. It features several common spaces designed to facilitate collaboration in interdisciplinary centers and with the school's wide array of community and academic partners. The seven-story, 125,000 square-foot facility integrates with two major existing SPH buildings, which are finishing major renovation. Together they create a self-contained complex that houses the schools varied research, teaching, and service programs, as well as the public health library. Both a literal and metaphorical crossroads, UM SPH stands just a short campus walk from UM's schools of medicine, business, public policy, law, nursing, natural resources, and social work. The innovative design and state-of-the-art technology of the new and renovated SPH facilities better enable faculty and students to address today’s top public health priorities, including new genetic technologies, the financing of health care, the globalization of health, public health preparedness and the prevention and treatment of infectious disease. Read the remarks of Centerbrook architect Jeff Riley from the opening ceremony, explaining design elements and concepts behind the SPH Crossroads and Tower design.
Ground was broken October 23, 2003, at the UM School of Public Health. A literal as well as metaphorical "crossroads," the new facility will allow for greater collaboration among departments, research centers, faculty, students, and communities of all kinds, and will enable students across departments to exchange ideas with each other and with colleagues throughout the world. Shared teaching spaces will be more centralized, and opportunities for research will multiply.
"From the beginning, we have conceived the school's new building complex as a crossroads of intellectual activity, of research and teaching, of academe and community," said Noreen M. Clark, Marshall Becker Professor of Public Health and SPH dean during the building's planning and groundbreaking. "This concept reflects the school's longstanding tradition of interdisciplinarity and heralds our future direction. As disciplines begin to share perspectives, they will change. Contributing old disciplines will grow stronger, and new disciplines will evolve. The Crossroads is designed to foster these ends at their optimum." |
Locating Rooms in SPH by Their Numbers (PDF) In Fall 2007, main renovation was been completed in the SPH I building, and it is now recoccupied. Personnel from several SPH annexes (Church St. South U., etc.) have been relocated to the main SPH campus. Questions? Send them to sph.construction@umich.edu . Watch SPH's demolition and construction video
Open for Business Moves into the new building have progressed rapidly. The new building connects with SPH II on each level that's complete. You may gain access to the appropriate floor by using the stairs and/or elevators in SPH II and walking across into the Crossroads and Tower. The layout:
The view is taking shape inside and out. With 2,300 linear feet of windows, the Tower promises many breathtaking views.
November 2005 September 2005 June 2005 January 2005 Pedestrian Detour An alternate pedestrian route when walking between SPH I and SPH II: Exit the northeast wing of SPH I at the sub-basement level and use the north/south walkway, along the plywood wall between Markley and SPH I, to enter the northeast entrance of SPH II. Mail Room Moved All boxes (including the HR/Wolverine Tower box) have moved to the SPH II loading dock (MG442A). Info: Rachel Flint (rflint@umich.edu or cell phone 9-891-8238). |
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View the opening reception invitation
At the groundbreaking, from left: Chasity Wellnitz
and Rebecca Danhof, co-chairs of the Public Health Student Association;
Noreen Clark, SPH dean; Mary Sue Coleman, UM president; Paul N.
Courant, UM provost; Kimberlydawn Wisdom, surgeon general of the
state of Michigan and an SPH alumna; and Martin Philbert, senior
associate dean for research-designate at SPH. (Photo by Paul Jaronski,
UM Photo Service)
Construction Activity
Winter/Spring 2006
underway. Drywall is being installed; painting of walls, installation of ceiling lights, floors, and doors follow. By midwinter, the building will be enclosed and the majority of the construction work will move to the interior. Simultaneously, activation planning is in full swing, addressing issues such as signage, phones, relocation, and furniture. 
brick are visible on the 7-story new building that will house laboratories and offices. The two-story connector building, often referred to as The Crossroads, will contain the main entrance to the school and will house classrooms, offices, community lounges, a cafe and cyber cafe, and reading rooms. Completion of the new construction is scheduled for Fall 2006. 
with
three times the number of employees on site. Steel framing, glass installation, and bricking of the tower continue. By fall, the research tower will be substantially closed, and the bulk of
the work will move to the inside of the building.
tower is finished and the steel crew has been demobilized. Special thanks goes out to the ironworkers who worked every
day and weekends to get the structure completed speedily (the launching
of flags and a tree on the highest beam was their traditional tribute
to a project safely completed). 
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