Renewing our facilities is critical for faculty and student recruitment and retention and the quality of our teaching and research endeavors. Enhancements will create a much more effective interaction among students, faculty, staff, and professionals, and will enhance the sense of community among the environmental design disciplines that was envisioned when the college was formed. In order to achieve this, we must raise $8,750,000 in order to do the following:

• 4th Floor Link. The Fourth Floor Link will provide individual and group offices, flexible research space, and space for the college to collaborate with the community and professional partners on critical environmental design challenges. It will be designed to demonstrate cutting edge sustainable design principles and the most advanced concepts in technologically advanced, flexible work environments, including an advanced Visualization Theater. Estimated cost: $5,000,000.
   
  
• First and Second Floor Exhibition Spaces. Public spaces on the first and second floors of Wurster Hall function as the college's exhibition spaces. Currently, these spaces provide only the barest minimum (i.e., walls) required for the display of student and faculty work and for other exhibits. Most of the finishes and building systems are in great need of refurbishment. Carefully treated, these exhibition spaces in conjunction with our major lecture space and eating facility can provide exciting and dynamic spaces in which designers, planners, and artists can communicate with each other and with the broader community. Outstanding lighting design, beautiful floors, advanced and flexible mounting systems, and display cases will create a lively and focused center for observation and discussion in Wurster Hall. Estimated cost: $750,000.
   
  
• 3rd Floor Corridor and Offices. The renovation of the third floor would convert unused offices into critical meeting space facilitating faculty and faculty/student interaction. In addition, the current inadequate size of the offices prevent architecture faculty from designing at CED. The renovation of the 3rd floor would expand the offices sizes by fifty percent. Estimated cost: $1,000,000.
   
  
• Architecture Shop. Reorganize and renovate the shop to accommodate the expanding role of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) tools essential for the research agenda of our new faculty. The architecture shop needs to be expanded in order to accommodate increased usage, new equipment, and computer-based tools technology. Lastly, funds must be provided to support expanded shop hours. Estimated Cost: $1,000,000.
   
  
• Computer-Based Tools Lab. Shop fabrication has been revolutionized by computer-based tools. In order to better prepare our undergraduate and graduate student to remain abreast of developments in architectural practice, we must create a CAD/CAM Laboratory and integrate Computer Numeric Controlled Instrumentation into design studios. Estimated cost: $1,000,000.