Lang
11/1/23
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday for the University of Iowa’s new Health Sciences Academic Building. School officials say the state-of-the-art facility will house three of the UI’s most popular and top-ranked programs.
The six-level Health Sciences Academic Building will house Communication Sciences and Disorders, Health and Human Physiology, and the Carver College of Medicine’s No. 4-ranked Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science department. Moving those programs to the new site frees up space at the current site of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center for a planned $1 billion inpatient tower for the UIHC.
Construction of the Health Sciences Academic Building, located on the former site of South Quadrangle at the northeast corner of South Grand and Melrose Avenues, will cost an estimated $249 million.
