Project Snapshot
Project Sponsor: Provost & Vice President Academic
Project Size: 165,840 GSF
Budget: $88.0 million
Occupancy: December 2017
Project Manager: UBC Project Services
Architect: Diamond Schmitt Architects / CEI Architecture
Construction Manager: Scott Construction
Sustainability: LEED Gold
Funding: Federal Strategic Investment Fund $32.528 million; Provice of British Columbia $ 11.838 million; UBC $35.634 million
Project Summary
The Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Labs Renewal project involves a renewal and expansion of the Biological Sciences complex to provide modern, well-equipped teaching laboratories for over 2,000 students enrolled in undergraduate life sciences programs. This will replace and consolidate deteriorated teaching labs in the Biological Sciences Centre and North, Wesbrook and D.H. Copp buildings.
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In the media
- Award Magazine: Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Labs – UBC
- BC Government—Advanced Education and Skills Training: Scientific discovery awaits students at new UBC facilities
- Daily Hive: UBC opens newly renovated and expanded $91-million Life Sciences building
- Ubyssey: Renovated and expanded Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Laboratories open on campus