Dive Brief:

• The University of Michigan is in the midst of a campus construction program that will total about $1.7 billion for buildings that are underway or in planning.
• The university is a very large presence with 500 buildings and an inevitable effect on the look of the city of Ann Arbor.
• The largest project in the group is a $261 million biology building that also will be the new home of the university's natural history museum.

Dive Insight:

Amid new buildings and renovations, the university is going to dig up and replant a 200-year-old bur oak. That piece of the work is estimated to cost $300,000 to $400,000.