OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY——COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE MASTER PLAN
The College of Veterinary Medicine Master Plan provides a data-informed framework to align the campus with the college’s strategic vision. Developed in response to state mandates, the plan addresses an 18% increase in enrollment and the addition of 44 faculty and staff, while modernizing aging facilities, and strengthening campus structure.
Our analysis identifies about 17,000 ASF of additional space needed to support growth, including a new 200 seat lecture hall, expanded Clinical Skills and operating procedure teaching labs, additional research laboratories, and faculty offices. At the same time, one of the college’s existing buildings, Goss Laboratory, faces significant deferred maintenance and functional obsolescence, underscoring the need for strategic reinvestment.
We evaluated three planning scenarios: a growth-focused connector building in the southeast; an immediate replacement of Goss prioritizing modernization; and a gateway and quad-based strategy emphasizing placemaking and campus identity.
Following comparative analysis and stakeholder engagement, the preferred direction introduces a scalable new academic building between two existing buildings, creating a new southeastern gateway aligned with future BRT access. The facility accommodates prorated growth, supports in-place clinical teaching expansion, and establishes contemporary research and office space. Longer term, other replacement research space and replacement space for pathology positions the college to vacate and ultimately demolish Goss, delivering greater long-term value rather than renovation.
The plan provides a path to phased implementation, prioritizing clinical expansion, coordinated parking realignment, and advancement of the new academic building, followed by relocating pathology, and eventually demolishing Goss.
Through rigorous programming, placemaking, disciplined sequencing and scalable investment options, the master plan establishes a coherent campus structure that supports growth, modernizes critical assets, strengthens research competitiveness, and ensures long-term stewardship.
