The University of Alabama at Birmingham is initiating the second phase of its Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building project. Phase two will cost approximately $120 million and will add 30,000-sf of research space, including the $7.89-million fit-out of the sixth and eleventh floors to house immunological and neuroscientific research, including the expansion of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute. The contractor is Argo Construction.
The planned third phase will include the Comprehensive Diabetes Center and is still in the design stage, with contracts to be awarded in late 2006 and completion slated for fall of 2007.
Constructed by Hoar Construction of Birmingham, phase one of the public-private project cost $140 million and is comprised of a 12-story, 323,000-sf research and office facility. Official dedication occurred on April 3, 2006. Programs in the building, in addition to the McKnight Brain Institute, include the Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Program and the UAB Shared High Resolution Imaging Facility.
