About $5.6 million will be spent fixing the roofs of seven on-campus buildings and an off-campus property owned by the University of Memphis.
The building re-roof projects began between July and early September, but the request for roof repair was first brought up during the 2007-2008 school year as a part of "capital maintenance."
Roofs are inspected and then maintenance requests are submitted to the assistant vice presidents of Physical Plant and Campus Planning and the vice president for Business and Finance.
Pamela Cash, manager of facility projects, said the roof construction will cost $5.6 million and will be paid for by the "state appropriation for capital maintenance from the legislature." The University submitted a permit application for $2.1 million with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement in May.
"This is a routine procedure to protect the investment of [a] building by keeping it water tight," Cash said.
The buildings under construction now are the Art and Communication Building, Campus School and E.C. Ball Hall. The estimated completion date for the Art and Communication building is Nov. 28.
Other buildings scheduled to undergo construction are Manning Hall, the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, the Elma Roane Field House, the Hudson Health Center, the Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood School and Research Institute, and the C.H. Nash Museum at the Chucalissa archeological site.
The buildings are not all on the main campus. Some are on Park Avenue campus, and others are simply University property.
Cash said the construction should not cause any classes to be moved or canceled.
"The work may affect walking paths at times, but should there be any path closures, we will work closely with Student Disability Services," she said.
