PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
CHANGING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE Changing education and evolving healthcare needs means that many university programs and facilities are changing as well to accommodate 21st century team-based learning and advance integrated healthcare across the state. With approximately 150,000 gross square feet of new construction and the renovation 14
professionals. It includes a new three-story, above-grade, 149,000 SF building that features formal learning environments that foster unparalleled student-teacher interaction, state-of-the art immersive simulation suites, knowledge creation and knowledge management spaces, as well as social learning spaces outside of the classroom.
CREATIVE LOGISTICS FOR CONSTRUCTING ON AN ACTIVE CAMPUS
of roughly 52,000 gross square feet of existing space in the Phillips-Wangensteen Building at the University of Minnesota, the school’s new Health Sciences Education Center (HSEC) is now the front door to the Academic Health Center (AHC). The building is designed to support the AHC’s interprofessional education model and fosters a team-based, experiential approach to patient-centered care training to better serve 70 percent of Minnesota’s healthcare
HSEC required mass demolition of two existing buildings that occupied a majority of the two-acre site. The project site was flanked on all sides by fully occupied buildings including an active hospital, a 15-story clinical building, a church, and two student housing facilities. This required JE Dunn to assemble an extensive disruption avoidance plan including items such as dust control, vibration monitoring, existing utilities investigation/ identification, emergency vehicle access, and public vehicular and pedestrian traffic control. “During demolition, JE Dunn had
