This $30 million Health Sciences Education Building replaced teaching facilities dating to the early 1950’s. The facility, which was the first LEED® Certified building in the State of Utah, fulfills three primary objectives, including serving the student population of the School of Medicine, Colleges of Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Eccles Health Sciences Library as a core interdisciplinary education building; providing a modern, state-of-the-art, student-focused teaching and learning center; and providing relocation of the core academic functions and spaces for the school of medicine.



Big-D Construction is on the leading edge of construction technology with the use of SCC concrete. Most amazingly, Big-D crews placed concrete in tall foundation walls without the use of concrete vibrators. The key? SCC (or Self Consolidating Concrete). SCC did not require vibration to assure proper -consolidation (the elimination of bug-holes or honeycomb in the finished product). SCC enables Big-D craftspeople to place concrete in highly -congested or inaccessible areas with the assurance that there will be no voids left in the concrete, and prevents segregation (the separation of aggregates within the mix) during placement.



*This project is recipient of the following awards:

Intermountain Contractor Best of 2005, “Best Public Construction Project”

Intermountain Contractor Best of 2005, “Best Higher Education Project”

Intermountain Contractor Best of 2005, “Best Technology Design”

ABC Utah 2005 Excellence in Construction, “Commercial Project Over $5 Million”

ABC Utah 2005 Excellence in Construction, “Champion of ABC Utah - Project of the Year”