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University of Waterloo Opens Quantum-Nano Centre

Published 9/29/2012

The University of Waterloo opened the $160 million Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre in September of 2012. Designed by KPMB Architects of Toronto, the 276,000-sf, five-story facility features a 10,000-sf fabrication cleanroom, a metrology suite, teaching and research labs, seminar rooms, and faculty offices. Providing a research environment with minimal vibration, radio frequency interference, and electromagnetic interference, the building houses the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. The project contractor was Aecon Group. Ground was broken on the facility in June of 2008.