Drexel Health Sciences Building Updates
April 8, 2022
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April 2022
February 2022
January 2022
The Health Sciences Building is going strong. The steel stud framing is beginning on level 12, the final floor! Drywall is completed up through level 8 with the medical gas systems installed and tested on levels 7 and 8.
The service elevators (cars 11 and 12) will be up and running for construction use within the next six weeks.
Tower cranes have been removed, and they will begin removing the hoist and closing up the curtain wall panels immediately after the elevators start up.
Carpet install is to begin February 1. Resinous flooring on level 12 (anatomy spaces) will begin March 11, and the finishes trades are scheduled to begin once space is temperature controlled.
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December 2021
The Health Science Building now has permanent power, and it is watertight with curtain wall (exterior) completed. The service elevators should be operational by early March, and the passenger cars up and running by end of March. The flooring installation should be starting on the second floor within three weeks. The HVAC system chilled beam has been installed up to the fourth level. Things are moving along!
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October 2021
Construction on our future home is moving along! The building perimeter is almost complete and should be “zippered up” by the end of November.
Core and shell work (elevators, toilet rooms and stairs) are really taking shape. The HVAC work is in place, metal stud installation is up to the 12th floor and drywall work is underway on the lower floors. Visible spaces and rooms are replacing the big empty floors. Interior photos to come soon.
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June 2021
May 2021
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March 2021
Six cement trucks lined up to pour the concrete floors.
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January 2021
December 2020
When the announcement about a new home for the College of Nursing and Health Professions was made in May 2019, no one could have imagined that construction would be delayed by a global pandemic. It was expected that groundbreaking would be in spring 2020 with a substantial completion delivery of mid-2022. Beginning in late July, it is still the hope to maintain the same timeline.
With CNHP being the first occupants of the new facility, some of the College of Medicine’s administrative functions, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies and its first- and second-year medical program will join the College in phases. President Fry, in a message to the University in late 2019, said “at the new academic building, many of Drexel’s health-related programs will be under one roof, enhancing opportunities for interdisciplinary education in a facility that affords health sciences students, faculty and professional staff the best possible environment for continued development and growth.”