Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University is poised to start construction next March on its collaborative health education building, a facility intended to facilitate an integrated approach to learning among students in the faculties of medicine, health professions and dentistry.
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Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University is poised to start construction next March on its collaborative health education building, a facility intended to facilitate an integrated approach to learning among students in the faculties of medicine, health professions and dentistry.
The construction budget is estimated at $35 million.
Designed by Halifax-based Barrie & Langille Architects Ltd. in association with Toronto’s Moriyama & Teshima Architects, the new five-storey, 106,000-square-foot building will house a health sciences learning commons, active-learning classrooms and seminar rooms and a clinical skills and simulation lab as well as social spaces to encourage an inter-professional culture.
LEED Gold is being targeted.
The building, located on the corner of University Avenue and Summer Street, will be connected to the Life Sciences Research Institute, which opened its doors in 2011.
Peter Coutts, Dalhousie’s new assistant vice-president, construction, said, in a statement, that the architects have designed a building that is flexible, can accommodate multi-uses, and is a model of accessibility.
He said the building also provides “a much-needed” learning commons for the university’s Carleton campus, one of three in the Halifax area.
The project team includes MHPM Project Managers Inc.
The building is scheduled to welcome its first students in September, 2015.
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