SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING BUILDING
Size: 205,779 gross square feet
Location: Main campus, west of the Cottage Grove parking garage
Funding: $113 million
Completion date: mid-2008
The building's office, classroom, and lab spaces were designed for interdisciplinary research projects. It is being built to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver rating. The stone tile on the building comes from a local quarry.
Water from the labs will be purified using reverse osmosis for reuse in the toilets and urinals. Its advanced environmental systems will also reduce the indoor air contaminants.
GREENSPUN HALL
Size: 121,000 gross square feet
Location: Main campus, southeast of the Student Union
Funding: $93.7 million, including $37 million donated by the Greenspun family
Completion date: June 2008
This facility will bring together almost all the College of Urban Affairs units into one complex. It is designed with sustainability features and includes a distinctive courtyard shaded by a solar power array, which will provide more than 15 percent of the total annual energy for the building. The project's design is also in keeping with the streetscape planned for Midtown UNLV, a redevelopment project along Maryland Parkway.
STUDENT SERVICES COMPLEX ADDITION
Size: 15,960 gross square feet
Location: Main campus
Funding: $6.5 million
Completion date: May 2008
This addition will give the campus more space to serve UNLV's 28,000 students, bringing many of the student business offices into one facility. The new space will house a much larger public counter as well as the registrar and admissions offices, which are currently crammed in UNLV's oldest building, Frazier Hall.
ADVANCED DENTAL EDUCATION
Size: 44,000 gross square feet
Location: Shadow Lane campus
Funding: $16.4 million
Completion date: This fall
This facility will expand the opportunities for patient care at the School of Dental Medicine's Shadow Lane campus, with expanded space for the specialties of orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Last fiscal year, the school's clinics provided 62,333 oral-health services to residents, many of whom would not ordinarily be able to afford routine dental care.