New home for IT at IUPUI to foster an ‘information economy’

With symbolic turns of the spade, Brand, Bepko and McRobbie commenced construction of the Communications Technology Complex (CTC) and Informatics Complex (IC) at Michigan and West Streets in Indianapolis. Projected to cost $39 million, the building is scheduled to be completed in 2003.

“The CTC and IC are very real symbols of IU’s commitment to building the information economy in Indiana,” McRobbie said. “The CTC will be home for network operations centers for global and national high-speed networks such as the Internet2 Abilene network, cutting-edge research in pervasive computing, and the development and delivery of award-winning IT support services to IUPUI’s students, faculty and staff.”

William Plater, executive vice chancellor and dean of the faculties at IUPUI, summed up the prospect of the IC portion of the building: “It is a dream come true.”

“We began working on a new classroom building to replace the Mary Cable building over 18 years ago,” Plater said. “Since then, music technology, journalism and informatics have all emerged as new academic disciplines. To have a building designed for these exciting new fields—as well as modern, well designed learning environments and classrooms for all students—is a milestone in IUPUI’s emergence as one of the world’s great urban universities.”