The University of Missouri is considering a renovation plan for three of its buildings that would cost $23 million, the Associated Press reported Friday.
The three buildings would be Jesse Hall, the administrative building, Pickard Hall, a museum of Art and Archaeology, and Swallow Hall, a Museum of Anthropology.
According to the Columbia Daily Tribune, administrators, faculty and staff would need new offices for at least a year. The construction, if approved, will begin in May of next year and last until Summer 2015.
The AP reported Swallow Hall's renovation would cost about $11.5 million and would include expanding available space for classrooms, offices and labs. Workers would have to move out by May next year and construction would last until the summer of the following year.
Jesse Hall's $9.5 million renovation would give the building a new sprinkler system, a new fire alarm system, a second elevator and upgrades to the heating and cooling systems. Workers would need to move out by June 2014, with the construction lasting about ten months.
According to a news release, when the proposed work is done, the two museums would be relocated to the building formerly know as the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center "for the foreseeable future." The cancer center will then be renamed Mizzou North.
According to the AP, Pickard Hall will require the earliest move out date: the end of 2013. The building contains radiation from experiments conducted in it decades ago.
According to the release, the move will cost $1.5 million, but costs for testing the building's safety are still not known.
University spokeswoman Mary Jo Banken told the AP the project would be funded from three different sources.
About $8.6 million would come from savings resulting from refinancing current debt, $8.85 million from Campus Facilities' deferred maintenance budget and $5.4 million from one-time savings the campus has accumulated.
