The construction of a Student and Indoor Sports Facilities Center is currently underway at the American University in Dubai. This project comes as part of the strategic plan set forth by the University to meet the demands of its growing community.  

The Center is to be inaugurated towards the end of July, 2008, and will extend over an area of 13000 m², 2600 m² of which will be occupied by central courts and a stadium.

The ground floor will encompass a cafeteria, a central kitchen with all of its amenities, and a 4300 square feet dinning area. A central indoor football field is designed so that it can be dismantled into two independent courts and used as a basketball or volleyball court. This court will have a stadium with a capacity of two thousand five hundred spectators, in addition to an outdoor stadium that lies across the soccer field, and that can accommodate three hundred spectators.

This ground floor will also have two squash play grounds, two locker rooms, with shower booths assigned for males and females, a barber shop, a travel agency, a bank, a copy center, an AUD souvenir shop, a book store, a supermarket, and three shops.

The first floor will accommodate one food court with six outlets, six kitchens, six stores, and a 4300 square feet dining area, a restaurant for external vendors, one store room, one multipurpose 144 capacity high tech hall, and a meeting room for approximately thirty-six players. It will also have an office for the AUD sports coaches, two 1600 square feet gymnasiums for gents and ladies, and a sports office.

The second floor will incorporate one hall with the capacity for a hundred people, nine classrooms/labs, one storage room, seventeen offices, one conference room, two control rooms for the central court, and a lobby/waiting area.

Finally, the third floor will have nine classrooms/labs, a storage room, twenty-one offices, one conference room, and one lobby/waiting area.

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