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UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., left, shouts instructions to start the groundbreaking for the Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health last week. The groundbreaking marked the beginning of one of three building projects that will soon take place on the east edge of the UNMC campus. |
Construction will begin next spring on a new center for successful aging and an addition to the College of Nursing.
In addition, work will begin on the centerpiece for the UNMC academic campus — a new student plaza, which will include an ice rink and architectural/artistic feature.
With the upcoming projects, the sights and sounds of construction are insured to continue on campus through spring 2010. Groundbreakings are as follows:
- Wednesday, Sept. 17 — Home Instead Center for Successful Aging groundbreaking; and
- Wednesday, Oct. 22 — College of Nursing addition in Omaha.
Meanwhile, construction of the Research Center of Excellence II is on track for a December completion, said Ron Schaefer, director for UNMC Facilities Planning and Construction.
“Construction is going well on the research tower,” he said.
Workers have installed windows on the $76.5 million research tower, as well as enclosed the interaction space — a high ceiling, glass area — that connects the new facility to the adjacent Durham Research Center.
The 10-level research tower — nearly a mirror image of the Durham Research Center — will contain 252,179 gross square feet with 98 state-of-the-art laboratories, as well as office space for investigators and laboratory support space.