Yale School of Nursing

Renovation to the School of Nursing Building

West Haven, Connecticut

Completion Date
2013

Size
81,400 gsf

Construction Cost
$7.6 million

Services
Programming
Lab Planning
Architecture
Construction Administration

Role
Ellenzweig
Design Architect and Laboratory Planner

Located on Yale’s West Campus in West Haven, the new home for the School of Nursing was created in a renovated, reconfigured 1980’s office building—one of the many structures that comprised the former Bayer HealthCare campus now occupied by Yale.

Contemporary facilities for the entire School of Nursing program—teaching, research, and administration—are housed in the new location: lecture halls, classrooms, small-group learning rooms, video-conferencing facilities, simulation suite, physical assessment and task trainer labs, mock examination rooms, learning commons, biobehavioral research suite, a student “hub” with lounge, café, student meeting spaces, and all administrative office functions.

The new YSN building at West Campus enhances our ability to prepare future leaders of nursing, clinicians, researchers, and scholars by virtue of the state-of-the-art facilities built specifically for 21st-century graduate nursing education.

– Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN

Dean Emeritus and Annie Goodrich Professor Yale University School of Nursing

Student-centered features such as break-out areas, collaboration spaces, and the café were an important focus of the design. A new stairway connects multiple floors to further bring together students as well as faculty.

The highly economical build-out of the renovation included Building Automation System controls upgrade, structural modifications, and a new entry that creates a prominent presence for Nursing on campus.