Northern Michigan University Jamrich Hall
Academic
Neumann/Smith transformed Jamrich Hall, the University’s primary general use classroom building, into a high tech, flexible, active learning environment.
After completing the programming/study phase, Neumann/Smith recommended that greater efficiencies would be achieved with a new building than by renovating the existing one.
In addition to being highly flexible and adaptable to changing innovations in teaching pedagogies and information technologies, the new building provides annual operations savings, improves opportunities for faculty-to-student collaboration by locating classrooms adjacent to academic departments, eliminates underutilized classroom space, achieves a campus-wide room utilization goal consistent with national standards, and provides new classrooms with a seating capacity sized to match enrollment.