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Top story: UMass Chan leaders and invited dignitaries cut the ribbon on the new education and research building, as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address. 

UMass Chan leaders and invited dignitaries cut the ribbon on the new education and research building, as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address.  

A tightly choreographed process to move faculty, staff and equipment into the new education and research building on the Worcester campus has begun. The building opening will be celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 7.  

Construction equipment and office trailers used in the construction of the new education and research building at UMass Chan will soon be removed as construction enters the final phase before completion of the building in early June.

The exterior of the new education and research building will be essentially air-tight, so installation of a sophisticated air handling system is underway to keep the building comfortable and save energy in the process.

The exterior of the new education and research building under construction at the UMass Chan Medical School Worcester campus is quickly being covered with sections of a customized energy-efficient system known as a unitized curtain wall.

Carrying the signatures of hundreds of community members, project leaders and members of Iron Workers Local 7, the ceremonial steel beam marking the “topping off” of the new education and research building under construction on the Worcester campus of UMass Chan Medical School was placed on Monday, Aug. 22.

The new education and research building under construction at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will begin to take shape on March 14 with the start of structural steel erection.

After months of excavation, demolition and relocating underground utilities, construction of the new education and research building on the UMass Chan Medical School campus in Worcester has entered a new phase—building the actual structure.

A bedrock blasting program for the excavation of the site of the new education and research building at UMass Medical School in Worcester begins July 12 with two test blasts, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

A geothermal heating and cooling system is being installed in the new education and research building under construction at UMass Medical School that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Construction of the new education and research building at the UMass Medical School main campus in Worcester goes underground this week, as crews begin excavation for the foundation of the structure.

Demolition of sections of the First Road garage is underway to accommodate the construction of the new education and research building on campus.

Demolition begins April 12 on the campus of UMass Medical School to make way for the construction of the new education and research building.

The pedestrian bridges connecting the First Road garage to the Lazare Research Building and the Albert Sherman Center on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester will close permanently on March 12.

What looks like a wall of windows now standing on the UMass Medical School quad in front of the Lazare Research Building is a visual mock-up of the style and design of glass panels being considered for the exterior of the new education and research building under construction on campus.

Nearly 1,200 people who park on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester will have their parking assignments changed on Feb. 8, as construction continues on the new education and research building.

To accommodate the new education and research building now under construction on campus, a portion of the First Road garage facing the campus green will be demolished. The existing garage elevators and staircase will remain open and in service. The project does, however, include permanently rerouting the walkways from the elevator landings into the garage on floors 2 - 6 through an addition to the existing stair tower.

Major changes in parking and pedestrian routes on campus begin this week when the site of the new education and research building is fenced for enabling work by the construction management company.

Construction of the nine-story, 350,000-square-foot new education and research building at UMass Medical School will take three years and have significant impacts on daily campus activities.

UMass Medical School has received approval from the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees to build a nine-story biomedical research and education facility on the Worcester campus to support laboratory research growth and the educational enterprise.