The Life Sciences Building will be home to the College of Natural Sciences biology, microbiology and botany departments along with the Pacific Biosciences Research Center.
The estimated $110 million building project will provide 388 affordable, rental housing units along with a child-care facility and ground floor retail space.
The UH Mānoa campus transformation includes converting interior roads into pedestrian malls and increasing and improving spaces—indoors and out—for learning, study, collaboration and recreation.
The Creative Media Facility at UH West Oʻahu reached a milestone of the installation of its final beam, and to mark the occasion, supporters marked the beam.
The celebration capped a 15-year quest to provide an essential space for practical training for law students while simultaneously serving members of the community in need of access to justice.
The project will convert Sinclair Library into a hub of student interaction with modern, comfortable spaces for individual study, group study, academic advising and tutoring, and more.
UH Mānoa students, administrators and officials signed their names on the final beam of the building’s steel structure before it was lifted into place.