Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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PUJ is located in Bogota, Colombia, in a large 18 hectares campus in midtown, with an occupied area of 234,000m2 distributed in 44 buildings. The campus has 290 classrooms and in the interior of the campus and part of the university it has the San Ignacio University Hospital with a service of 300 beds.PUJ offers 38 undergraduate programs, 37 graduate medical and nursing degrees, 88 graduate degree non-health related, and 8 doctoral programs including architecture, law, education, engineering, arts, health (medicine, nursing, dental, and psychology), and economics and business. It also offers continuing education programs.PUJ’s proposed project will leverage a total cost of $ 110 million, to span a construction period of 7 years, for infrastructure expansion of its campus, as follows: (a) construction of and equipping for a new main student building (University City) (11,300 m2), which will be used for teaching purposes as well academic common areas (i.e., libraries, meeting rooms, conference rooms, etc.); (b) construction of new engineering, health and science faculty buildings (additional 19,000 m2) and demolition of 14,400 m2 of these old faculty buildings; and (c) construction of Edificio Calle 125, outside of the PUJ campus but also in Bogota, which will be used for continuing education programs.On the northeast side and adjacent to the campus, there is a scarce resources community of approximately 10,000 people; on the northwest side, and also adjacent, there is an established residential community of approximately 2,000 people. The university limits to the north with a mixed residential/commercial community; to the east with the Sucre residential neighborhood, separated by the university by the Carrera 7, a main city road; and to the south with the Olaya Herrera national park with which it shares a 4,500m2 of pristine native forest. In addition, within the premises of the campus, there is also a 525 m2 environmental reserve which the university has protected by having established adjacent to the reserve a green area of approximately 8,000 m2, which serves as buffer.