September 18, 2009
$5 million donation to help Ivey business school building earn LEED Gold
Richard M. Ivey has donated $5 million to the London, Ont. business school that bears his family name to help a new building achieve LEED Gold certification.
Ivey made the announcement during a groundbreaking ceremony for the building, a $100-million facility which will bring students, faculty and staff who are currently dispersed across five locations in London under one roof and accommodate growing enrolment at the business school.
Hariri Pontarini Architects is architect of the three-storey, glass and cut-stone structure; EllisDon is the general contractor.
The federal and provincial governments are providing $50 million in infrastructure funding for the first phase of the facility, which is expected to be completed by March 2011.
It is estimated the project will create almost 600 jobs in Ontario over the next 10 months.
This will be the second LEED-certified building on campus. The other is the Faculty of Engineering’s Claudette McKay-Lassonde Pavilion, scheduled to open this fall.
-RCD Digital Media
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