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Darden Faculty Office Building Renovation The University of Virginia (University or UVA) invites highly qualified Architectural/ Engineering (A/E) firms to submit a Letter of Interest/ Statement of Qualifications and associated supporting materials for consideration in the selection of a consultant team to provide planning, architectural, and engineering design services for a planning study of the Darden Faculty Office Building in accordance with the latest version of the UVA Higher Education Capital Outlay Manual (HECOM). More importantly, Darden is seeking design options that enhance the faculty experience by providing an inspiring new building featuring natural light, innovative collaborative spaces, and dynamic meeting rooms. All questions should be directed ONLY to Bruce Jackson at 434-924-6387 or brj2n@virginia.edu COL-7003067 The Darden Faculty Office Building Renovation will aim to rectify these weaknesses by renovating the existing building to be consistent with modern standards - and peer business schools - for openness, collaboration, technology, and impact. Project Drivers: The initial phase of this Project will focus on developing and evaluating design options, schedule, and budget to renovate the existing Darden Faculty Office Building. Key considerations include an increase in faculty offices - critical to accommodate the faculty growth that has occurred at Darden. Faculty need spaces to interact with many stakeholders and to work together on projects and research. They also require dynamic spaces to host outside academic speakers for seminars, to meet with students and alumni, and to host external executives and other business and organizational leaders. Additionally, renovation is required to accommodate the approximate 50% growth of the Darden faculty that has occurred, particularly in the past decade. The Darden Faculty Office Building (FOB), built over 25 years ago, does not meet many of these necessary, contemporary dimensions. Largely a hoteling space for faculty offices, the Darden FOB features long hallways with no natural light and few common, collaboration spaces. Rather than an inspiring place to conduct their work, faculty find the FOB to be an inferior space to alternatives such as working from home. For a school that prides itself on a vibrant community, the current FOB is a strategic disadvantage and critical shortcoming of the Darden School. Darden aspires to provide a faculty workplace that reinforces and enhances Darden's position as a vibrant, diverse community engaging in scholarship and student-centered learning. The first phase of the project will be a planning study. Upon successful completion of the study, the University may in its sole discretion elect to retain the selected firm for full design and construction services for any or all phases of the future project. Purpose & Program Background: The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is routinely ranked as the world's best educational experience. As the center of that accolade is Darden's faculty, ranked for decades as the best in the world among business schools. Darden expects much from our faculty: excellent student-centered instruction, world-class research, advancing pedagogy through teaching cases and other course materials, and speaking to and influencing the world of practice. To deliver on these expectations, Darden's faculty require spaces that allow for a mix of both individual and collaborative workspaces enabled by technology. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.