UChicago campus grid

The University of Chicago architects and physical plant staff refer to campus buildings and hospital corridors with building codes. (These are not the building abbreviations used on course listings or on most campus maps.) At the bottom of this page I have reproduced the table of building codes used in the IT Services Network Jack Service Request form (with some misspellings and inconsistencies corrected). The building codes are a letter followed by a two- or three-digit number. Since adjacent buildings have the same prefix letter, I figured that the letters must refer to a campus grid. I actually found and scanned a map showing this campus grid (high resolution version here).

Grid squares A through I snake across campus. Grid square A includes the hospital and science quad buildings. Grid square B includes Ratner, the BSLC, and the Research Institutes. Grid square C includes Pierce, adjacent administrative buildings, Max Palevsky, and the Regenstein Library. Grid square D includes the main quad and the buildings immediately east. Grid square E includes the Booth School of Business, the lab schools, and Breckenridge. Grid squares F - I include buildings south of the Midway. Several building codes don't seem to refer to grid squares at all; for instance, three X codes are downtown, one's on 55th St., and the rest are at the University Hospitals! Mysteriously, the University seems to have a network jack at the 60th St. Metra tracks. Email me at william.m.vaughan at gmail.com if you have any information about building codes or the campus grid.

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Will Vaughan. Last revision March 16, 2011.