Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex

The University of Toronto Mississauga is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto. It is in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada about 33 kilometres west of the main St. George campus. It was formerly called the Erindale College but was later changed to the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). The campus has seven main educational buildings: the original North Building, the William G. Davis Building (formerly known as the South Building), the Kaneff Centre and Blackwood Gallery, the Recreation, Athletic, and Wellness Centre, the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre which holds UTM's library, the newly opened Instructional Building, and the new the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex for the Mississauga Academy of Medicine.

The North Building was the original educational building for UTM, formerly known as Erindale College. Construction for the North Building began in 1966. It was originally intended to be temporary and to be used for administrative purposes. Classes in the building began for the 1967 school year, with 155 students, 28 faculty, and 40 staff. Since then numerous additions and remodels have been made to the building. Today the only part of the original structure that remains is the cafeteria and some classrooms of the first floor. The building is now home to the Department of Humanities. Room capacities range from 48-person classrooms to a 200-person lecture hall and the cafe contains Coyote Jacks, Pita Pit, Tim Hortons and Mr. Sub vendors.

The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) is situated by the west bank of the Credit River. This made it an idyllic location to start constructing what architect Raymond Moriyama called the "UTM Campus Master Plan" in 1967. That year, the North Building was created as a temporary academic facility which marked the beginning of Erindale College. As this building was only meant to serve as a temporary shelter, Moriyama originally thought that there would be one central building that would hold all academic facilities, thus preserving the natural state of the campus. The idea of creating this "mega-structure" lead to the development of the South Building. It was then constructed, and in 1973, the South Building was opened on the UTM campus. Since then however, the South Building has undergone major reconstruction.

UTM has experienced "a period of rapid growth with an enrolment increase of approximately 71%." With such a significant increase in the population, the campus had to naturally meet the demands of this growth. Five buildings have been constructed from 2000 to 2007 in order to support this growth, one of which have been an extension onto the South Building: the Recreation, Athletics and Wellness Centre. Another major building that was constructed in 2006, to facilitate such change was the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre (HMALC) which now functions as a library. Prior to this, the second and third floor of the South Building were used as the campus's library. With the creation of the HMALC, 5,800 square meters became free to expand the building further. A "phased approach" was taken for the renovations as this allowed them to tackle the re-allocation and construction of the South Building sequentially. According to Kearns Mancini Architect inc., the firm that took on the first phase of renovations for South Building, the project was valued at $6 million. They renovated 32,000 square meters of the building, and completed it in 2009.

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