Wednesday, September 19, 2012
OU to celebrate continued growth with opening of Human Health Building
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The Oakland University community is set to celebrate the grand opening of the 172,000-square foot Human Health Building at a reception from 3-5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21.
The Human Health Building is the new home of OU's highly acclaimed School of Nursing and School of Health Sciences. The $64.4 million facility features state-of-the-art classrooms, seminar rooms, an interactive media center, physical therapy clinics and clinical, computer, simulation and distance learning labs.
On the cutting edge of environmentally friendly design, the building boasts 256 geothermal wells to boost energy efficiency, the largest variable refrigerant heat pump system in the U.S., and solar panels that provide cooling, humidity control and heating water supplies. The building is located at the Northwest corner of Oakland's campus.
Completion of the Human Health Building extends a trend of rapid campus expansion that has included the addition of four academic buildings within the last 13 years. It also precedes the Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, groundbreaking for Oakland's $74.6 million, 127,000-square-foot engineering center, which is planned for completion in August 2014.