Friday, September 21, 2012
OU to celebrate continued growth with opening of Human Health Building
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.