Doug Marsh on the Notre Dame Campus Plan
If you’ve visited Notre Dame’s campus in recent years, chances are you’ve encountered the telltale signs of progress and growth—stunning new buildings and landmarks, freshly renovated spaces, and several more construction projects underway. These efforts showcase the strategic vision behind the Notre Dame Campus Plan, a blueprint guiding the sustainable development of the University in the years to come.
In this episode of For Good, Doug Marsh, Vice President for Facilities Design and Operations and University Architect, reflects on his decades of experience overseeing the growth of Notre Dame’s campus and affirms his commitment to honoring and preserving the historic and sacred character that distinguishes Our Lady’s University.
Don your hard hats and join us for this sneak peek into an active construction site on campus—and catch a glimpse of Notre Dame’s future.
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Monday, April 14, 2025 12:00 pm
If you’ve visited Notre Dame’s campus in recent years, chances are you’ve encountered the telltale signs of progress and growth—stunning new buildings and landmarks, freshly renovated spaces, and several more construction projects underway. These efforts showcase the strategic vision behind the Notre Dame Campus Plan, a blueprint guiding the sustainable development of the University in the years to come.
In this episode of For Good, Doug Marsh, Vice President for Facilities Design and Operations and University Architect, reflects on his decades of experience overseeing the growth of Notre Dame’s campus and affirms his commitment to honoring and preserving the historic and sacred character that distinguishes Our Lady’s University.
Don your hard hats and join us for this sneak peek into an active construction site on campus—and catch a glimpse of Notre Dame’s future.
This episode was originally released on September 26, 2024. To explore more, please visit their website.
Meet the Speaker: Doug Marsh '82
As vice president for facilities design and operations and university architect, Doug Marsh ’82 is responsible for leading the successful planning, design, and construction of new campus facilities as well as renovation, maintenance, and utilities projects. Under his leadership, the University has designed and constructed scores of new and renovated campus buildings. He is also responsible for Notre Dame’s utilities, maintenance, and landscape teams which cares for more than 200 buildings and 1,000 acres of campus grounds. Facilities Design and Operations also hosts the University Facilities Information team whose responsibilities encompass the tracking of facilities use data.
Doug, a native of South Bend, received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1982 and worked in private practice prior to joining the University’s staff in 1995. He and his wife, Pam, have two sons: Adam, a 2011 Notre Dame alumnus, and the lead paleontologist at the Petrified Forest National Park, and Alex, a 2014 Notre Dame alumnus, an architect working in Indianapolis, Indiana.