The six-story, 220,000-square-foot complex will house research, teaching and training laboratories.
This is what the new laboratory science building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst looked like in March.BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts is breaking ground on a new $152 million science building on its Boston campus.
The facility is the first new academic building on campus since 1974.
The six-story, 220,000-square-foot integrated sciences complex will house research, teaching and training laboratories. It is expected to open in September 2013.
UMass President Jack Wilson, UMass-Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino were among the officials scheduled to attend Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony.
The science building is part of the university’s 25-year master plan that will see a number of new academic, residential and athletic facilities on campus as well as reconfiguration of roadways and walkways.
Last fall, the university began construction of a laboratory sciences building in Amherst.