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A Half-Billion Here, a Half-Billion There…
New $176 million Yale med school building part of $500 million expansion plan
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Business New Haven
3/6/2000
By: Michael C. Bingham
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Yale University announced last month that it would commence construction of a new $176 million building on Congress Avenue to house research and educational facilities for its medical school. The building is the first bricks-and-mortar manifestation of Yale's plans to invest $500 million over the next decade to expand and improve medical school facilities and increasing laboratory space by 25 percent.
In January Yale announced that it would invest $500 million in its science and engineering programs.
“This plan will increase our capacity for biomedical research, one of Yale's greatest academic strengths, and allow our faculty and students to work and learn in state-of-the-art facilities,” said Yale President Richard C. Levin.
The new facility will house six floors of laboratories for disease-based research, core facilities for genomics and magnetic-resonance imaging, and teaching space for anatomy and histology.
Yale ranks fifth in the nation in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most of which goes to the medical school. As NIH funding has risen, so has the demand for laboratory space. Along with the Congress Avenue building, Yale will renovate much of its other laboratory space.
“Every field of medicine is being transformed by recent advances in molecular biology, cell biology and genetics,” said David Kessler, M.D., dean of the Yale School of Medicine, “and Yale investigators, with this critically important new investment, look forward to leading the way in biomedical research of the future.”
The Congress Avenue building is being designed by Payette Associates of Boston and Venturi Scott Brown of Philadelphia. Construction management will be handled by Whiting-Turner, a company that has worked on other projects at Yale.
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