Project Spotlight 11: Modern Science
UMass facility seeks to rush scientific discoveries to patients
Public universities in the last decade have been no strangers to massive construction projects, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School is no exception.
By next fall, the shell and core of the school's new Advanced Center for Clinical Education and Science (ACCES) should be complete, according to the university. The modern, glass-shrouded, seven-story, 258,000-square-foot facility was designed by Payette, is being built by Consigli Construction and will be hard to miss.
The building's shell and core, without much of the interior work done, will cost the university $91.8 million.
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Some of what will go on inside, however, may be over many a head. The new facility will provide the school with much needed clinical care space, which will be mixed in with academic space.
The ACCES building will be home to the university's new Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation, which the school says is essential for keeping UMass "at the forefront of health sciences education."
Faculty researchers and clinical scientists working in the clinical and translational sciences will also have new homes at the ACCES building. The goal of those faculty and scientists will be to find ways to shorten the time between laboratory breakthroughs and clinical application. With this effort, the school is playing to the stated priorities of the National Institutes of Health.
The university said at least two floors of the new facility would be dedicated to state-of-the-art clinics for faculty physicians at the medical school and at UMass Memorial Health Care.
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