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King Hall Renovation and Expansion

Project Planning Guide

Project Account # 950340

Prepared By: Resource Management

and Planning

September 2005 (revised)

Approved By:

John A. Meyer Date

Vice Chancellor – Resource Management

and Planning

Table of Contents

Capital Improvement Budget

Executive Summary 1

Overview of UC Davis 2

Program Description 3

Need for the Project 6

Alternatives Considered 12

Relationship to University Mission and Objectives 12

Project Description 13

Cost Basis and Sustainability 17

Site Map

Project Schedule

Environmental Impact Classification

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The School of Law at UC Davis moved into its current building, Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, in 1968 with 337 total students and 15 faculty members. The School has grown to 575 students and 39 FTE budgeted faculty members, with 5 legal journals, 4 clinical programs, very active moot court, trial and appellate advocacy programs, and 22 academic groups.

To accommodate growth and the emergence of new programs as legal education evolved over the past 40 years, the School has incrementally partitioned and converted the space of the existing building to new functions. For example, a library reading room was converted to a computer lab, new faculty offices were reconfigured from library stacks and group study rooms, and students working on legal journals were moved into conference rooms.

The result of these incremental accommodations is a facility configuration that is inefficient, disjointed, over-crowded, and ultimately insufficient to support the teaching, research, and service programs of the School. In its 2004 accreditation review, the American Bar Association concluded that the School’s facilities are “small and reflect an earlier era in legal education that makes it difficult to function as a modern facility.”

To correct these deficiencies, the Davis campus proposes a capital improvement project that integrates a modest 22 percent addition to King Hall with renovation of key portions of the existing building. The project will add 18,800 assignable square feet (ASF), renovate 14,300 ASF of existing space, and upgrade building systems in the existing facility. The project will relieve over-crowding and allow consolidation of program functions in the existing building to address the most urgent needs for office space and library space. The project will also include a new 125-seat trial practice room and additional meeting space, which will be funded with added gift funds.

The proposed project adopts a capital improvement strategy that maximizes value to the School’s programs by combining a modest building addition with renovation of selective areas in the existing building. The completed project will provide an integrated facility that coordinates office, library, and instructional functions into cohesive program units.

OVERVIEW OF UC DAVIS

UC Davis, chartered in 1868 as a land grant college, is now acknowledged as an international leader in agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences. The campus has gained similar recognition for excellence in the arts, humanities, social sciences, engineering, health sciences, law, and management. UC Davis ranks among the top ten public universities nationally. The campus attributes much of its strength to its historic focus in agriculture and the impressive diversity of academic programs that emerged from this foundation. A distinguished faculty of scholars and scientists, a treasured sense of community, and a dedication to the land-grant values of creative, responsive, and innovative teaching, research and public service are hallmarks of UC Davis. Interdisciplinary collaboration encourages students and faculty to explore the relationships between fields of study.

Recent rapid enrollment growth has spurred academic program development, research activity, and growth in faculty numbers. Growth since 1998-99 has been very rapid, approximately 6.0% per year. The campus has focused its capital program on instructional and research space and is still attempting to catch up to the growth already experienced to fulfill facility needs. The general campus (excluding the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine) long term enrollment plan in Table 1 shows projected total student enrollment increasing from 20,351 in 1998-99 to 28,200 in 2009-10, two years after completion of the proposed project.

Table 1

UCD General Campus Enrollment,

Actual and Projected

| |Actual |Budgeted |Projected |

|  |1998-99 |2004-05 |2009-10 |

|Undergraduate FTE |17,179 |22,835 |23,775 |

|Graduate FTE |3,172 | 3,965 | 4,425 |

|Total |20,351 |26,800 |28,200 |

Based on these enrollment projections and analysis of space available and proposed, California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) space guidelines show that without the proposed project, by 2009-10, the campus would have 172,000 ASF less than the amount of standard space allowance needed for instruction and research activities.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The School of Law was established on the Davis campus in 1965. It is distinguished by a small student body, small class sizes, and an outstanding faculty committed to a supportive educational environment. Current enrollment is 575 student FTEs; students are taught by 63 faculty members.

The curriculum is diverse and broad, spanning legal theory, legal analysis, and the basic practice areas of law, as well as the social, economic, and political background that informs the evolution of the law. The School is nationally renowned for its programs in human rights, public interest law, community clinics, environmental law, international law, and intellectual property rights. UC Davis is ranked 32nd out of all 182 ABA-accredited law schools.

The School is named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to honor his efforts to achieve social and political justice for the disadvantaged by lawful and orderly means.

The Instructional Program

The Juris Doctor (JD) degree program forms the core of the instructional activities in the School. The program requires three years of study in residence. The first-year curriculum is prescribed and provides the essential framework for subsequent legal study. All students take courses in civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, legal research, legal writing, property, and torts. The work during years two and three is elective, where students choose among 150 course offerings.

The School provides students with an education that has a unique balance of theory and practice. Virtually every student participates in one or more of the School's trial and appellate advocacy programs. These programs include various moot court competitions, trial practice classes, trial practice competition, and appeals court classes. The School enlists the active participation of judges and lawyers, many of them alumni, as instructors for the practical training of students in trial advocacy. Without this type of applied skills training, graduates would advance to legal careers with virtually no experience in areas critical to the practice of law.

The instructional program is integrated with graduate education throughout the Davis campus. Typically requiring four years, students may earn a joint JD and master’s degree in business administration, economics, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, or international agricultural development.

Student-run law journals form a major component of the instructional program. Selected students have the opportunity to work on five law journals: Law Review, Environs (Environmental Law), Business Law Journal, Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy, and the Journal of International Law and Policy. As major outlets for scholarly publications, the journals are a point of integration between the instructional and research programs of the School. Faculty advisors are heavily involved, and students often earn academic credit for their journal work.

The Research Program

Through integration of the research and teaching programs, students at the School of Law are exposed to some of the leading national and international legal scholars in a variety of fields. The School produces advanced legal scholarship in a variety of fields, pioneering the law in such areas as scientific evidence, international human rights, immigration law, civil rights, non-marital cohabitation, and criminal sentencing. It is helping shape environmental law in Washington D.C., constitutions in Eastern Europe, commercial law in China, and family law in England, the Netherlands and Germany.

Faculty are expanding collaboration with other scholars on the UC Davis campus and other campuses, with inter-disciplinary projects in cultural studies, political science, psychology, biosciences, and the environmental and agricultural sciences. Faculty members are providing critical legal and ethical expertise and guidance to the campus stem-cell initiative, which is bringing faculty together from across the campus.

The School is at the forefront of legal reform through faculty leadership and participation in the projects of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI). The institute's projects -- which clarify and update issues of the law -- form the basis of laws enacted across the country and become standards cited in judges' legal opinions, lawyers' briefs and scholarly articles. With 10 of its faculty members elected to the institute, the School is among those with the highest proportion of faculty in the ALI.

The Clinical and Public Service Program

Clinical programs are central to the curriculum and mission of the School of Law. The programs conform to ABA requirements that law schools offer students significant opportunities for pro bono and public service work, as these will be expected of them as legal practitioners. The faculty commitment to public service and to pro bono legal service is extended to students through a unique array of clinical offerings. In-house clinics include specialized work in civil rights, family law and domestic violence, prisoners’ rights, and immigration law. Fully-supervised externship programs allow students to earn academic credit for work in environmental law, human rights, criminal defense and prosecution, labor law, public interest law, tax law, and juvenile law.

Civil Rights Clinic. Students advocate for the civil rights of prisoners and other indigents, usually in federal district court. Clinic students are able to gain experience that takes them well beyond their three years of law school. In a typical semester, students may conduct client intakes, meet with clients, draft interrogatories, conference with federal judges and opposing counsel, take depositions, draft and file pleadings, interview witnesses, and research legal issues. Students also attend weekly clinical meetings where they report on their work, advance new ideas and help each other develop strategies about how to proceed in litigation. In addition, students may try a case before a jury or negotiate a settlement.

Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic. The Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic is the newest addition to the School’s clinical program. Students enroll in the clinic for two semesters and represent domestic violence victims who would not otherwise be able to afford an attorney. Emphasizing the importance and added effectiveness of addressing a complex problem from different perspectives, the program contains three components: student education, direct client representation, and community education.

Immigration Law Clinic. The Immigration Law Clinic, established in 1981, provides year-round community education and free legal services to low income immigrants. Due to its location in the Central Valley, California's agricultural center, the Clinic is in a unique position to serve the state's large immigrant community. Students interview clients and witnesses, conduct factual investigations, draft pleadings and motions, prepare legal briefs, prepare witnesses for direct and cross examination, and represent immigrants at hearings in immigration court. A major emphasis of the clinic is development of student’s trial skills and the ability to prepare clients for direct examination. The Clinic allows students to serve as attorneys in administrative law cases involving political asylum and deportation. In a semester's time, students take cases from beginning to end, appearing before an administrative law judge in a hearing with an opposing lawyer.

Prison Law Clinic. The students in the Prison Law Clinic use their legal skills to assist prisoners with problems related to incarceration in state prison. Students advocate on their clients' behalf with officials at the institution where the prisoner is housed, and file formal grievances with the California Department of Corrections. The Clinic provides students the opportunity to practice criminal law, to learn about the California state prison system, and to experience the art of negotiating and the intricacies of administrative law.

The Library

The law library is a critical resource that supports the instructional, research, and service programs of the School. The library contains over 425,000 volumes, including over 125,000 volume-equivalents in microform materials. A staff of 18, including three attorneys and five with professional library degrees, keep the library open 78 hours per week when the School is in session and provide reference service for both traditional and computer information sources.

The study of law relies on library resources in a unique way. The library is a learning laboratory, where students are taught methods of legal research by librarians. Much of the law is based on actual cases, which typically cite other cases in developing support for a decision. Students must learn how to navigate a complex system of multiple information sources for constructing their own legal arguments.

Like other law libraries, the School is using current information technologies to enhance service to students and faculty and to maximize space and fiscal resources. The library is a long-time subscriber to on-line legal databases, such as Lexis and Westlaw. Four years ago, the library added Heinonline, a database that provides digital images of law journals as originally published, addressing the need for precise legal citations. The library participates in the UC system’s California Digital Library, providing a wide range of non-legal resources often needed by students and faculty.

Users access on-line resources through a local area wireless network within King Hall, a computer laboratory within the library facility, and public workstations located in the library stacks. The computer lab is open to students around the clock seven days a week.

The library staff conducts training sessions in the use of on-line databases. Training is coordinated with regular courses in legal research, taught conjunctively by faculty and legal librarians.

At the same time, many information resources in hard copy format are essential to the students in preparation of coursework and critical to student and faculty research of legal issues and clinical experience. However, effective management of hard copy and digital resources, with careful weeding and off site storage of less frequently used materials, will allow the physical size of the library collection to stabilize in the near future.

As a member of the federal depository library program, by which the School receives government documents at no charge, the library is required by statute (44 U.S.C. sec. 1911 (2002)) to be open to the public.

NEED FOR THE PROJECT

INADEQUACIES IN EXISTING LAW SCHOOL SPACE

Since its establishment in 1965, the UC Davis School of Law has grown substantially, yet the building remains in its original condition. Student enrollment, now at 575, has increased more than 70% since the early years of the School. Students, faculty, and staff are crowded into space that is insufficient to support teaching, research, and service programs. Crowded conditions create inefficient usage, particularly in the library and offices.

King Hall was designed 40 years ago, before the development of contemporary law school technologies and teaching methods and at a time when the School, like its peers across the nation, had much smaller admissions, registrar, accounting, career services and other student service functions. The School has imperfectly accommodated the creation and expansion of these functions by locating them in inadequate, non-contiguous spaces in King Hall and temporary buildings. The proposed project will align the facility with the current program.

The building’s floor plans are highly inefficient. Faculty offices are scattered, making student visits difficult and inhibiting faculty collaboration. The classrooms are dispersed, increasing student traffic onto multiple floors and wings. The administrative offices have been patched into a variety of areas, making workflow inefficient. Circulation patterns within the building are poor. Library space is used as a corridor to connect faculty offices. The library has a non-secured perimeter. Visitors to admissions enter the building through a stairwell, and then need to descend to the basement.

The American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation review in 1994 concluded that “the space needs of the School are … urgent.” The amount and condition of physical facilities were the only area of concern raised in the ABA’s 1997 review.

The School currently occupies a total of 69,932 assignable square feet (ASF), as shown in Table 2.

Table 2

School of Law Existing ASF, Fall 2004, by Building and Room Type

|Type of Space |King Hall |TB 30 |TB 31 |TB 34 |Totals |

| | | | | | |

|Classrooms |5,772 |0 |0 |0 |5,772 |

|Seminar Rooms |1,465 |0 |0 |0 |1,465 |

|Special Class Laboratories 1 |2,105 |0 |0 |0 |2,105 |

|Subtotal, Teaching |9,342 |0 |0 |0 |9,342 |

|  |  | | | |  |

|Academic Offices |5,250 |466 |0 |0 |5,716 |

|Administrative Offices |8,607 |0 |869 |0 |9,476 |

|Research Offices |3,113 |653 |0 |168 |3,934 |

|Legal Clinics |0 |1,677 |0 |265 |1,942 |

|Student Support Space |4,650 |0 |0 |0 |4,650 |

|Subtotal, Office |21,620 |2,796 |869 |433 |25,718 |

|  |  | | | |  |

|Bookstacks |22,458 |0 |0 |0 |22,458 |

|Reading Rooms |9,352 |0 |0 |0 |9,352 |

|Workrooms |3,062 |0 |0 |0 |3,062 |

|Subtotal, Library |34,872 |0 |0 |0 |34,872 |

|Totals |65,834 |2,796 |869 |433 |69,932 |

|1 A single room, configured as an appellate practice moot court. |

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Instructional Space

Since the King Hall was constructed, most of the instructional space has been located in the north wing of the second floor. Two small classrooms, however, were converted from other uses in the southwest corner of the basement to accommodate enrollment growth over the years. The basement location disperses student traffic onto multiple floors and wings, creating circulation inefficiencies in the building.

The basement classrooms, Room 91 and 92, are also too small. These rooms seat 30 and 40 students, respectively, and are used for courses with enrollment demands of 45 to 50. Students are routinely turned away from enrolling in these courses because of seating limitations. In Fall 2004, for example, eight courses held in these classrooms were over-subscribed by 5 to 16 students each.

Classroom space on the general campus is not available to the School, with the campus classroom utilization rate now at 99.4%. Even if general campus space was available, use by the Law School would be problematic. The School’s curriculum runs on semesters, while the rest of the campus runs on academic quarters.

The school also needs instructional space that simulates the courtroom experience. King Hall currently has a single special class laboratory that simulates court conditions. It is heavily used for scheduled courses, unscheduled lab sessions with instructors, and student groups working on course projects or practicing for moot court competitions. In Fall 2006, the school will add more courtroom skills courses and laboratory sections, in response to new accreditation requirements that every student receive appropriate courtroom training. The current special class laboratory will be insufficient to accommodate the increased load. In addition, the existing special class laboratory is configured to resemble appellate court proceedings, instead of the trial courtroom configuration that is required for trial practice.

Faculty Space

As the faculty size grew over the past 40 years, rooms originally intended for other uses were converted to faculty office space, wherever the rooms might be located. The result is a jumble of faculty offices, dispersed in multiple locations and inefficient in size. Dispersion inhibits research collaboration and student-faculty interaction.

The limited faculty offices and research space also preclude proposed initiatives for new research directions. There is particular interest in an agricultural law center, which would leverage faculty expertise and student interest with a traditional campus strength.

The proposed project will increase the number of faculty offices in King Hall and reduce the average office size. Faculty would be moved out of the temporary buildings and all offices would be consolidated within King Hall in a single corridor.

Administrative Space

Administrative functions at the School of Law have expanded considerably over the last 40 years, yet space to support those functions has remained static. Administrative offices are dispersed, creating inefficiencies, degrading services, and frustrating inter-office collaboration and exchange of information. It is difficult for staff across offices to collaborate on school-wide projects without reasonable adjacencies or group meeting spaces. Conference room space has been converted to use by student journals. The one remaining conference room is scheduled 19 hours per week for regular classes. Some offices, such as the offices of the Assistant Dean for Administration and the Registrar, are too small to accommodate even a single student or other additional person comfortably.

Administrative staff do not have adequate workroom space for administrative processes. For example, applications to the School have increased over 75% during the last ten years, from 2,600 to 4,600 per year. Shepherding these applications through the review process is a complex, labor-intensive process. The files reside in a multipurpose area that has not been expanded. The space has been filled with more files and more part-time staff.

Limited space compromises privacy for sensitive interactions. Students meet with student services staff to resolve sensitive matters (e.g., academic standing, personal consumer credit, financial neediness for aid, etc.) in open spaces, some of which also serve as circulation and reception areas, where other students pass and congregate within earshot. The academic personnel analyst meets with faculty to review salary and appointments and promotions issues in a work space doubling as circulation, with adjacencies to reception areas where students, staff, and faculty gather.

Offices vital to the mission of the Law School, such as Admissions, are not readily visible and accessible, but instead are relegated to the back of the King Hall basement. With the current physical plant, it is impossible to relocate functions to more appropriate locations.

The currently available space is inadequate and does not sufficiently support administrative functions. The average space per staff, including deans, assistant deans, and professional level staff, is less than 82 assignable square feet. The proposed project would raise the average space per staff to 108 ASF.

Library Space

The library facility is no longer capable of supporting the instructional and research programs of the School. The library has insufficient reader stations for the number of users[1], insufficient book space for the collection, basement spaces that are not contiguous with the rest of the library, and a physical configuration that compromises security. There are no discussion rooms for student study groups and no offices for the professional reference staff.

The need for physical space to house the library’s collection is changing with technology. For example, on-line subscriptions to numerous journals and databases have replaced bound paper versions. Purchase of the Heinonline original-image database, in particular, has reduced the need for print copies of law journals and law reviews. The library has cancelled all of its foreign case reports as these have become available on-line.

The library has also been actively weeding its printed collection. Approximately 6,000 volumes per year are either discarded or moved to off-site storage at the UC Northern Regional Library Facility in Point Richmond. With weeding, the current net growth in the collection is approximately 1,500 volumes per year, or about 0.5% of the total printed collection. Net growth is expected to stabilize within five years.

While collection management efforts have successfully reduced the reliance on physical library space, problems remain. Compact stacks have been installed over the years to increase shelf space without using additional floor space, but this leaves large parts of the book stacks inaccessible by users with disabilities. Circulation areas have been altered over the years to accommodate program needs, confusing the path of travel and resulting in poor security. During the day, anyone may enter the law school building and then enter the library either on the first floor, where library staff are present during regular hours, or on the second floor or in the basement compact stacks room, where staff are not present. From the library, anyone can remove books and equipment through the same points.

During night and weekend hours, the law school building can be accessed by students and attorneys with keys through the northwest door. Once inside, the students, attorneys, and anyone else that manages to enter have access to the entire building.

Legal Clinics and Journals

The School’s academic plan calls for adding two new clinical programs to the curriculum, but current space constraints preclude any new offerings. The two clinics would benefit from the School’s strong commitment to public service and legal skills instruction and its proximity to the state capital.

Community Legal Services Clinic. This clinic would provide practical skills experience to students helping indigent individuals in state and federal court and before administrative tribunals in a variety of civil litigation maters, including, landlord/tenant disputes, divorce issues, child custody proceedings, unemployment insurance matters, and bankruptcy cases.

Legislative Process, Strategy and Ethics Clinic. This clinic would teach students how to screen, monitor, analyze, and draft legislation; how to research legislative intent; and how to guide and influence the course of legislation. The clinic would include a legislative or lobbying internship with California State Senate or State Assembly members, joint legislative committees, the Consumer Federation of California, or the California Chamber of Commerce.

Development of new clinics requires new meeting room space. New meeting rooms are also needed to support the student-run law journals, all of which are crowded into insufficient space. To support the academic learning experience, legal clinics and journals require meeting space for regular collaboration and group interaction.

THE PLAN OF CORRECTION

The proposed project plan calls for renovation of approximately 14,300 ASF of existing space in King Hall, modernization of building systems, and construction of a building addition containing 18,800 ASF. The plan is based on a capital investment strategy that minimizes the scope of the building addition and maximizes program use of the existing building. The modest addition frees space in the existing building, which becomes available for re-configuration.

The plan provides new and improved classroom, office, and library spaces needed to support the teaching, research, and service excellence of the School of Law. The amount and type of space will be developed according to programmatic objectives:

• Provide expanded and improved office and library spaces;

• Upgrade the existing building from its 40-year-old condition;

• Reorganize the library to improve circulation and security;

• Consolidate faculty offices into a single wing;

• Consolidate instructional space;

• Consolidate and expand student services;

• Provide space to expanded academic and administrative functions not accommodated in the original 40-year-old design;

• Install fire alarm and fire sprinkler systems throughout the facility and provide domestic water connections to support the fire sprinkler system;

• Move all non-clinical functions from the temporary buildings to King Hall; and

• Implement sustainable design features.

The building addition will contain academic and administrative offices, space for student services, replacement classrooms and seminar rooms, and multipurpose rooms. The addition will allow reorganization of existing spaces in King Hall. The library will be expanded within the existing building. Academic offices will be relocated to the addition and consolidated into a faculty wing. Offices for administration, student services, and alumni relations will be located in a wing that includes portions of the existing building and the addition.

The project will modestly raise the ratio of total facility space to students to be comparable with peer institutions. Among the 46 small law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, the average building space per student FTE is 188 ASF. Space per student FTE at Davis is only 121 ASF, or 36% less than the average; out of the 46 small law schools, 44 have more space per student than UC Davis. The proposed project would raise the space per student to 148 ASF, or 21% less than the average; Davis would rank 33rd out of 46 in space per student.

ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED

The campus has grown rapidly in recent years, with a combination of increasing enrollments and expanding academic programs creating a serious space shortage.  There is no viable alternative expansion space available on the campus to resolve King Hall's space shortage. The assignment of general campus space to the Law School would result in space shortages for other units and would not keep the program consolidated. Additionally, the School of Law runs on a semester system while the rest of campus uses a quarter system, making the sharing of instructional space extremely difficult.

Another alternative considered is construction of a new building, approximately 85,000 ASF in size, for the School of Law. A new building would require far more capital funds than the proposed project, without a clear programmatic advantage. The modest addition to King Hall, integrated with renovation of existing space, is the most cost-effective solution for supporting the School of Law and keeping its academic programs consolidated.

A final alternative is substantial reduction of all School programs, to a level that can be adequately supported by the current facility. This would require a decrease in student enrollment of about one-third. King Hall is already classified among the “small” law schools; a one-third reduction in the student body would make it, by far, the smallest law school in the nation.[2] The loss of critical mass would threaten the School’s accreditation. Additionally, faculty and staff disruptions would be significant. Renovation of some spaces within King Hall would still be needed.

RELATIONSHIP TO UNIVERSITY MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

This project supports the instruction and research missions of the University of California by providing essential facilities for professional and graduate education in law. This project recognizes the important benefits this academic program provides to the California’s economy.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The King Hall Renovation and Expansion project will renovate approximately 14,300 ASF of existing space in King Hall, including teaching space (1,000 ASF), academic and administrative offices (4,400 ASF), and library space (8,900 ASF). The project will also construct a building addition of approximately 18,800 ASF consisting of replacement teaching space (1,700 ASF), new teaching space (2,500 ASF), academic offices (5,300 ASF), administrative offices (6,200 ASF), research offices (900 ASF), conference rooms (1,000 ASF), and student support space (1,200 ASF).

Table 3 shows the types and amounts of space included in the proposed project.

Table 3

Summary of King Hall Project Space (ASF)

|Type of Space |Building Addition |Renovated Space |Total Project |

| | | | |

|Classrooms |1,000 |1,000 |2,000 |

|Seminar Rooms |700 |0 |700 |

|Special Class Laboratory 1 |2,500 |0 |2,500 |

|Subtotal, Teaching |4,200 |1,000 |5,200 |

|  | | |  |

|Academic Offices |5,270 |0 |5,270 |

|Administrative Offices |6,260 |4,130 |10,390 |

|Research Offices |870 |270 |1,140 |

|Legal Clinics |0 |0 |0 |

|Conference Rooms |1,000 |0 |1,000 |

|Student Support Space |1,200 |0 |1,200 |

|Subtotal, Office/Conference |14,600 |4,400 |19,000 |

|  | | |  |

|Bookstacks |0 |3,000 |3,000 |

|Reading Rooms |0 |3,640 |3,640 |

|Group Study Rooms |0 |2,260 |2,260 |

|Subtotal, Library |0 |8,900 |8,900 |

|Building Total |18,800 |14,300 |33,100 |

| | | | |

|1 Moot courtroom configure for trial practice | |

TEACHING (5,200 ASF)

The teaching facilities within the project include 5,200 ASF of replacement and new classrooms, seminar rooms, and a trial practice moot court. Of this, 4,200 ASF will be located in the building addition and 1,000 ASF will be renovated space in the existing building. Approximately 2,200 ASF of the existing classroom space will be converted to library book stacks and administrative offices. The net increase in teaching space will be approximately 3,000 ASF.

Relocation of the classrooms and seminar rooms will consolidate instructional space onto a single wing and provide space for the library and an integrated administrative suite, improving circulation patterns throughout the building.

Classrooms (2,000 ASF)

One 50-station classroom (1,000 ASF) in the building addition will replace the 30-seat Room 91 now in the basement. Another 50-station classroom, also 1,000 ASF, will be moved from the 40-seat Room 92 in the basement to the north wing of the first floor. The basement classrooms, which currently occupy about 1,500 ASF, will be converted to library book stacks. The net increase of 30 classroom seats will allow more students to enroll in over-subscribed courses taught in these rooms.

Seminar Rooms (700 ASF)

Two existing seminar rooms (Rooms 2064 and 2070), each 350 ASF, will be relocated to the building addition. The current space will be converted to administrative offices.

Special Class Laboratory (2,500 ASF)

A 2,500-ASF special class laboratory with 125 seats will be included in the building addition. The laboratory will be configured as a trial practice room, with a jury box, a witness box, a judge dais, and technical equipment for presentation of evidence. The class laboratory is needed to support critical laboratory courses that teach trial practice lawyering skills, such as presentation of evidence, examination of witnesses, and jury interaction.

The new room will allow the existing special class laboratory to be used for moot court purposes focused on teaching students appellate skills and oral arguments before multiple justices. The size of the room will allow students to enroll in all core courses on time, consistent with the instructional curriculum schedule.

OFFICES AND SUPPORT (19,000 ASF)

The office and conference spaces within the project include approximately 14,600 ASF in the building addition and 4,400 ASF of renovation in the existing building. With approximately 8,600 ASF of current office being converted to other uses, the net increase in office space will be 10,400 ASF, an expansion of 40% from current conditions.

The project will allow the School to relocate non-clinical office functions, such as student journals, from temporary buildings into King Hall. The clinical programs will expand into the released space in the temporary buildings, which are well suited for legal clinics.

Academic Offices (5,270 ASF)

The building addition will include 39 offices at 135 ASF each, to be used by ladder-rank faculty. This will consolidate faculty for student access and collaboration. This will have the added impact of increasing space efficiency, as old faculty offices between 160 and 190 ASF will be reconfigured for administrative offices.

Administrative Offices and Support (10,390 ASF)

The Dean’s office will be consolidated into approximately 4,200 ASF on the first floor of the existing building, near the lobby for visitor access. This space will include the dean, associate dean, two assistant deans, three staff workrooms, and a reception area. It will also accommodate accounting, copying, and computer support services.

The Registrar’s office, student financial aid, career services, admissions, and other administrative functions will all be consolidated as student service areas (occupying approximately 6,190 ASF) and located in both the new building addition and the existing building, along a single corridor. Admissions and career services receive high volumes of public traffic (particularly prospective students and employee recruiters), so they will be located near the building lobby on the first floor. These functions are now in the basement, difficult to access for visitors.

Research Offices (1,140 ASF)

The project will include a 600 ASF workroom, to be used for collaborative research projects among the faculty and students. Two research offices at 135 ASF each will be located in the building addition. Two existing research offices in King Hall will be lightly renovated.

Student Support (1,200 ASF)

Student support space will include a forum meeting room and a space for lockers in the building addition. Current student support space, now in the existing building, will be re-located to the building addition into a consolidated student support area. Re-location of current student support functions will release space for the library expansion.

Conference Rooms (1,000 ASF)

The project will include two meeting rooms, each 500 ASF. These rooms will be used to support student clinic and journal activities for which collaboration and group interaction is essential to support the academic learning experience. In addition, the meeting rooms will support faculty and administration by replacing conference rooms that have been lost in the past.

LIBRARY (8,900 ASF)

Renovation work for the Law Library will include a 3,000 ASF expansion of the book stacks, in basement space now occupied by classrooms. This expansion will enhance circulation and accessibility. The reading rooms will be expanded from approximately 9,400 ASF to about 11,500 ASF, renovating 3,700 ASF and adding approximately 80 reading stations with computer facilities for access to on-line material. The renovation will be in areas on the second floor now occupied by faculty offices. Group study rooms of 2,260 ASF, needed to support courses on an everyday basis, will be provided. The net increase in library space will be approximately 5,300 ASF, an expansion of 15%.

The project will correct library security problems by making the basement compact stacks contiguous with the rest of the library and adding the space at the head of the lobby staircase to the library. With these changes, the library will be secure with the locking of the two side doors on the second floor stacks and with the construction of a locking door at the north end of the corridor outside of Room 2064. All traffic into and out of the library will then have to go through the first-floor library entrance/exit which will be equipped with electronic censors. The renovation will provide an independent night entrance directly into the library, securing the rest of the law school building after hours.

POST-PROJECT DISTRIBUTION OF SPACE

Table 4 summarizes the overall distribution of space in King Hall after project completion.

Table 4

School of Law Space, Current and Proposed (ASF)

|Type of Space |Actual Space, 2004-05 |Proposed Space, 2008-09 |Proposed Change |

|King Hall |Temp Buildings |Total |King Hall |Temp Buildings |Total |Net ASF |% | |Classrooms |6,911 |0 |6,911 |7,446 |0 |7,446 |3,035 |31% | |Seminar Rooms |700 |0 |700 |700 |0 |700 | | | |Special Class Laboratories 1 |2,105 |0 |2,105 |4,605 |0 |4,605 | | | |Subtotal, Teaching |9,716 |0 |9,716 |12,751 |0 |12,751 | | | |  |  | |  | | | |  |  | |Academic Offices |5,250 |466 |5,716 |5,270 |0 |5,270 |10,420 |41% | |Administrative Offices |8,607 |869 |9,476 |15,937 |0 |15,937 | | | |Research Offices |1,887 |821 |2,708 |2,757 |0 |2,757 | | | |Legal Clinics |0 |1,942 |1,942 |0 |4,098 |4,098 | | | |Conference Rooms |0 |0 |0 |1,000 |0 |1,000 | | | |Student Support Space |5,502 |0 |5,502 |6,702 |0 |6,702 | | | |Subtotal, Office |21,246 |4,098 |25,344 |31,666 |4,098 |35,764 | | | |  |  | |  | | | |  |  | |Bookstacks |22,458 |0 |22,458 |24,692 |0 |24,692 |5,316 |15% | |Reading Rooms |9,352 |0 |9,352 |11,446 |0 |11,446 | | | |Group Study Rooms |3,062 |0 |3,062 |4,050 |0 |4,050 | | | |Subtotal, Library |34,872 |0 |34,872 |40,188 |0 |40,188 | | | |Totals |65,834 |4,098 |69,932 |84,605 |4,098 |88,703 |18,800 |27% | |

1 Moot courtrooms configured for appellate practice and trial practice

COST BASIS AND SUSTAINABILITY

The campus has conducted pre-design studies and cost analyses of the project and has prepared a detailed cost estimate.

The King Hall Renovation and Expansion project will comply with the University of California Policy on Green Building Design and Clean Energy Standards approved by The Regents at their meeting of July 2003, as well as with the Presidential Policy for Green Building Design and Clean Energy Standards dated June 16, 2004. As required by these policies, the project will adopt the principles of energy efficiency and sustainability to the fullest extent possible, consistent with budgetary constraints and regulatory and programmatic requirements.

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[1] The number of reader stations is approximately 25% of students, faculty, and public users of the library. ABA accreditation guidelines call for a 50% ratio.

[2] The smallest ABA-accredited law school in the U.S. is the University of Memphis, with a student enrollment of 468. A one-third reduction in the student body at Davis would result in an enrollment of 385.

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