Reviewed by: Grace Howard
UAB opens new $77M Gorrie Hall for engineering
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UAB officially opened Frances and Miller Gorrie Hall today, the new home for the School of Engineering.
Located on 13th Street South beside Mervyn H. Sterne Library, the $77 million Gorrie Hall contains nearly 200 offices and workstations for faculty, staff and graduate students.
Additional features within the 110,000 square foot complex include:
- 2,000-square-foot Vulcan Materials Testing Lab, a lab designed to support graduate students and introduce local K-12 students to engineering careers
- Research and teaching labs
- Design and rapid prototyping lab
- Collaborative research suites for material engineering
- Brasfield & Gorrie Employees Student Study Commons
- Outdoor patio
UAB shaped Brasfield & Gorrie
“This world-class facility will make our School of Engineering all the more collaborative and competitive in attracting top faculty and students, providing real-world learning opportunities and conducting leading-edge research that impacts people’s lives across Alabama and beyond. We are deeply grateful to the Gorrie family, Brasfield & Gorrie, and other partners who are helping us take UAB Engineering to greater heights with this state-of-the-art new home.”
UAB President Ray L. Watts
Brasfield & Gorrie Founder Miller Gorrie added:
“Birmingham would not be the thriving, growing city it has become without UAB. The university has shaped the city Brasfield & Gorrie calls home, and it’s an honor to see our work together recognized through Gorrie Hall.”
Along with the Gorrie family, the development of the new School of Engineering Building was supported by Alabama Power and Vulcan Materials.
UAB Engineering: Once on 42 year event
Before the ribbon-cutting, UAB School of Engineering dean Dr. Jeffrey W. Holmes summed up the official opening of the new Gorrie Hall.
“I cannot tell you how happy I am to welcome you all here today to the grand opening of Frances and Miller Gorrie Hall. This is a once in forty-year event for us, actually, forty-two years if you want to be an engineer (the UAB School of Engineering was established in 1983). I’m particularly thankful to so many of the people who made this moment possible.”
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