Navigating unique project and program demands to enable creative repurposing

Successful adaptive reuse aligns mission, academic vision, real estate strategy, regulatory requirements, and project delivery from day one. The Chicago School evaluated more than 100 sites before selecting a historic urban building whose character, daylight, and context offered both opportunity and constraint for a forward-looking integrated health sciences campus. Session leaders demonstrate the navigation of project and accreditation requirements for the Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine, including simulation- and collaboration-driven pedagogies, curriculum-driven space utilization analyses. They illustrate solutions that reconcile historic building realities with the demands of simulation centers, standardized patient labs, and advanced teaching environments through tight collaboration among owner, architect, contractor, faculty, students, and specialty consultants.