McLeod Hall was the central facility for the School of Nursing until the opening of the new Claude Moore Nursing Education Building last year. McLeod is nearly forty years old and in that time has had no building‐wide renovation or infrastructure upgrade. Beyond the bare facility needs, the School also desires for McLeod to approach the aesthetic quality of their new building. This renovation project will address these needs and will do so in two phases.

McLeod Hall consists of five core floors of offices and classrooms, two underground parking levels, and an auditorium. (The area of each core floor is 10,000 gsf.) The scope of this project includes the five core floors only. The goal is to renovate these floors in two phases: Phase I ‐‐ first, fourth and fifth floors; Phase II ‐‐ second and third floors. The phasing is based on the priorities of the School and the funding currently available. To date, a detailed programming study and an infrastructure assessment have been completed. These will serve as the basis for design of the renovation. The programming study determined the space requirements and the
optimal locations for the classrooms, simulations labs, faculty and staff offices, and the various research centers located in McLeod. The infrastructure assessment evaluated building wide systems such as air and electrical distribution. Deficiencies will be addressed both by this project and by on‐going Maintenance Reserve projects.
Construction of Phase I is scheduled for completion by December of 2010.