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A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 31, at the UAB Mini Park, located at 800 13th St. South.

Frances and Miller Gorrie Hall will allow the UAB School of Engineering to blend advanced hands-on learning and real-world industry experience to prepare students for early-career success. The University of Alabama at Birminghams School of Engineering will soon have a new home. After years of being housed in multiple locations, the school will relocate to the new Frances and Miller Gorrie Hall, part of theScience and Engineering Complex.

As UAB continues to see tremendous growth, the School of Engineering endeavors to build a facility that will support its goals of attracting faculty, increasing grant funding and training the next generation.

Gorrie Hall, the new, state-of-the-art home for our School of Engineering will bring greater collaboration, innovation and competitiveness in attracting top students and faculty, as well as increased grant funding for leading-edge research, said UAB President Ray L. Watts. The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees voted in 2022 to name the building after the Gorries in grateful recognition of the Gorrie family and Brasfield & Gorries longtime efforts to support the university. We are grateful to the Gorrie family and to our other partners community- and statewide for helping us build on the excellence of UAB Engineering.

Building features

The sophisticated technology and design of Gorrie Hall will be on display in prominently featured showpiece spaces throughout the nearly 116,000-square-foot facility. These advanced labs, research suites and common areas will form the core of students college experiences and the heart of UAB Engineering for years to come.

To ensure that UABs diverse student population has every opportunity to thrive, the Student Success Center will be composed of three major components:

The 2,000-square-foot materials testing lab will house the equipment needed to conduct compression, bending, tensile and impact testing on materials ranging from concrete and steel to gels and foams. This lab will be crucial not only to graduates training, but also to efforts to introduce local K-12 students to potential careers in engineering.

Additional features of the building will include research and teaching labs, a design and rapid prototyping lab, transportation and smart cities research suite, student study commons, and outdoor patio.

Design of science and engineering buildings has changed so much in the last 30-plus years, said Jeffrey W. Holmes, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the UAB School of Engineering. This building will allow us to bring the majority of our academic and research efforts together under one roof for the first time. Students, staff and faculty from all our departments will be constantly interacting in the hallways and the offices.

Construction is expected to be complete in summer 2025.

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