The University of Michigan received final approval for $3.5 million for improvements to its health system on Thursday, The Ann Arbor News reported.

The school's Department of Emergency Medicine renovations will include a revamped conference room, training room, medical resident workroom and locker room, The Ann Arbor News reported.

One part of the renovation project will include improvements to 6,700 square feet of space at the ­university's A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center, to better the work setting for the emergency department team. The project will cost about $2.7 million.

Construction on the health care center is expected to be completed by spring 2015.

Meanwhile, the school will also be moving its electroencephalography and electromyography services from University Hospital to the former C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital building.

A renovation of approximately 6,700 square feet of space the old Mott building will create clinical diagnostic laboratories and offices. The project will cost $2.6 million and is slated to be completed by next fall, The Ann Arbor News reported.

Hospitals and Health Centers' resources will provide funding for both projects. Architectural firm of Niagara Murano is designing the Taubman project, and the firm Project and Design Management is reconfiguring the Mott space.

Funding for the projects were approved Thursday at a school Board of Regents meeting held at the Michigan Union, along with the approval of a new $261 million biology building and a $135 million business school upgrade.