Walking On Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2017 | Page 11

Implementing the overall expansion plan calls for
a phased approach to accommodate the need to con-
tinue providing services while the renovation and new
construction takes place. The four phases envisioned
are:
• Renovation and/or construction of the new sports
medicine facilities, an arena, lobby and admin-
istrative offices, orthopedics and ophthalmology
services, plus building a new ruminant health and
field services addition.
• Construction of new animal holding stalls and
co-location of nuclear medicine and other imag-
ing services.
• Renovation and upgrade of equine intensive care
and soft tissue treatment facilities.
• Renovation of emergency treatment and surgical
care facilities, along with additional office and
administrative spaces, and the construction of
additional equine holding stalls.
“This is a big project but we can do it and we must.
The impact on our equine and on our farm animal
programs will be tremendous,” says D. Paul Lunn,
Dean of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.
“This will give us an entirely new equine hospital and
a new farm animal hospital that will be the match of
any facilities anywhere. It will be a welcoming place
to bring your horse, and give our clinicians, staff and
students the space they need to be the best.”
NC State’s aggressive agenda aims high and rep-
resents a major commitment to providing state-of-
the-art veterinary medical services and facilities to the
equine community in the 21st century.
For more about the NC State College of Veterinary Med-
icine equine program go to: https://cvm.ncsu.edu/efavc/
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