LSU Plans $30.5 Million Complex in Shreveport

              8-20-70
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LSU Plans $30.5 Million Complex in Shreveport
Medical Center Project
Announced Here
Construction plans were an-nounced
Wednesday for a $30.5-
million five-building complex to
house the Louisiana State Uni-versity
School of Medicine in
Shreveport.
The new complex will be
erected adjacent to the 750-bed
Confederate Memorial Medical
Center, near the geographic
heart of Shreveport, said Dr.
William H. Stewart, chancellor
of the LSU Medical Center, who
announced the project.
Dr. Stewart said construction
will be financed by a grant of
$20.5 million to LSU by the
United States Public Health
Service and a $10 million bond
issue by the board of supervi-sors
of the LSU system author-ized
by the state Legislature in
1966.
"The School of Medicine in
Shreveport was opened in Sep-tember,
1969, in t e m p o r a r y ,
quarters leased by LSU in the
Veterans Administration Hospi-tal,
and its initial class of 33
first-year students is now en-rolled,"
the chancellor said.
USAGE IN 1975
Dr. Edgar Hull, dean of the
School of Medicine, said present
schedules call for advertising
for construction bids by early
1971, and that 42 months will be
required for completion, making
the complex available for prob-able
full usage by early 1975.
"Three Shreveport architec-tural
firms have formed a joint
venture to design the complex
and supervise its construction,"
Dr. Hull said.
They are Samuel G. Wiener
and Associates, Wilson and San-difer,
and William B. Wiener,
Morgan and O'Neal.
Dr. Hull said land on which
the structure will stand has
been leased to LSU by the
CMMC board of directors for 99
years at $1 per year in rental.
FOR 400 STUDENTS
"This new complex, designed
to accommodate upwards of 400
medical students and others in
the health sciences, as well as
the requisite number of support-ing
faculty and staff, will great-ly
enhance the capability of the
LSU system in the service of
Louisiana," the dean empha-sized.
"It will also advance Shreve-port
and Northwest Louisiana
as a truly emerging center of
academic significance in provid-ing
additional opportunities for
the education and training of
AN ARCHITECT'S scale model of the new
$30.5 million complex of five buildings which
will house the Louisiana State University
School of Medicine in Shreveport is shown
above (white areas) as it will be built with-in
the existing hospital buildings on the
grounds of the Confederate Memorial Medi-cal
Center (shaded).
physicians and others in the
health sciences, to help meet
the expanding health care needs
of Louisiana in the years to
come.
The five buildings, all con-nected,
will be constructed si-multaneously,
the largest of
which, rising more than 120
feet, wil be joined to the Con-federate
Memorial Medical Cen-ter
at eight floor levels.
The five structures are (1) an
Ll-story basic sciences, adminis-rative
and research building;
(2) a five-story comprehensive
care and clinical teaching build-ing;
(3) a four-story library
building, housing 156,000 vol-umes,
and with space for 329
readers, as well as a 250-seat
auditorium; (4) a two-story me-ihanical,
engineering and pow-
;r-plant building, and (5) a
one-story radioisotope and vola-tile
storage building.
LARGEST IN AREA
The five structures will con-tain
more than half a million
square feet of floor space, Dr
Hull said, "and the 11-story
building will be the largest in
North Louisiana, and second
only to the Charity Hospital at
New Orleans in size within the
state."
with the existing CMMC struc-tures.
The construction will be
fire-resistant, with interior walls
of masonry, accoustical tile ceil-ings
and floors of terrazzo and
composition tile Hull stated.
"The c o m p l e x will be
equipped with interior fluores-cent
lighting as well as year-round
temperature and humidi-ty
controls, through more than
3,000 tons of air-conditioning,"
he said.
The building complex will
face Kings Hwy. and will be
situated on the east side of the
present CMMC building.
"The more than 1,300 rooms
designed into the five structures
will include lecture halls, labo-ratories,
faculty offices and
clinical teaching areas, with
closed-circuit television origina-tion
and receiving facilities
available in all teaching areas,"
Dr. Hull declared.
'It is anticipated that the pro-ject
be the largest in dollar vol-ume
ever let to contract in the
history of Louisiana in public-works
building construction."
The buildings will be of con-crete
frame construction, rein-forced
with steel, with an exte-rior
masonry facing, compatible