Master space program (SGW campus)

The program for the Sir George Williams Campus includes:

Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex

• Construction of the high-profile Engineering, Computer Science, and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (two towers and 67,859 square metres) at the northeast corner of Ste-Catherine and Guy at a cost of $172M, opened in September 2005.
• Major renovations to the Hall Building began on the 8^th floor in 2004 and continued on the 7^th, 11^th, and 12^th floors in 2005, at a cost of approximately $13M. Elevators were replaced in 2007-2008 with larger units and the aging escalators will be replaced in 2011-12.
• Phase 1 of the renovation of the Visual Arts building on René-Lévesque was completed in 2006/2007 at a total cost of $2M to adapt and reorganize the space to accommodate those Fine Arts departments that did not move to the new Visual Arts tower in 2005, and to move the MFA programs.
• The 15-storey John Molson School of Business Building was completed in 2009 on target and on budget.
• The adjacent TD Bank Building facing on Ste-Catherine was donated to Concordia by TD Canada Trust in 2005 and, at a later date, it will be refitted for university facilities.
• Quartier Concordia is an urban design project initiated in 2003 to reinforce the institutional identity of Concordia in the downtown core. Work has begun on this long-term project that will be phased in over many years and will be carried out in cooperation with the City of Montreal.
• Work has been completed for Phase 1 of renovations to the recently acquired Grey Nuns Motherhouse and 227 students moved into the newly adapted residence facilities in September 2007.  Planning work continues to adapt this heritage property to Concordia’s needs as the different parts of the complex are turned over to Concordia.


Guy Metro Building

• Recladding is planned for the exterior of the Guy-Métro building in 2011-12 to both carry out needed repairs and to create visual continuity with adjacent new Concordia buildings on Guy Street. 
• By 2009-10 many administrative departments moved into the Guy Métro Building.
• By 2009-10 most of the Humanities academic departments were consolidated in the McConnell Building, with the Social Sciences departments concentrated in the Hall Building.
• Concordia is now connected more fully to Montreal’s Underground City and to its own network of downtown buildings thanks to the building of two new tunnels connecting its major buildings to the Guy-Concordia Metro station.

Current and projected construction and renovation projects are all designed to ensure that physical facilities are well suited to excellence in teaching and research and the evolving space needs of Concordia.