OU plans second office facility for research park

The University of Oklahoma plans to build a second multi-tenant office facility on its research campus in Norman.

The first office facility now houses Weathernews Americas. The second facility will provide about 50,000 additional square feet of commercial office space, which may be leased to entities interested in locating near other technology resources on OU’s Research Campus.

The Oklahoma Board of Regents will be asked to rank architectural firms to provide professional services required for the second multi-tenant office facility at a meeting. The regents also will consider three interdisciplinary centers and the McCasland Field House renovation and improvements project.

The three interdisciplinary centers include:

· The Center for Applied Behavioral Science, which will conduct research on critical confronting profit and nonprofit organizations and will seek to provide support for initiatives in the federal, state and business sectors with a particular focus on applied behavioral science problems.

· The Institute for Oklahoma Technology Applications, founded to transform targeted sectors of the Oklahoma economy through technology innovation.

· The Center for the Study of Human Operator Performance, which focuses on investigating human performance and the methods for conducting those investigations, especially computer-based test technology. Of particular interest to the center, known as C-SHOP, are computer-based tests that provide the means for assessing human performance in military, industrial, educational and medical applications.

The OU Regents also will award a contract for the construction of the McCasland Field House Renovation and Improvements, Phase I project, which includes the addition of new telescoping gymnasium seating and improvements to existing spectator seating.