Dewberry announced that the new North Academic Building at Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Center for Health Sciences campus is now under construction and is expected to open in Fall 2022.
Dewberry completed initial programming and conceptual
design for the new North Academic Building and the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner (ME) in 2018. By relocating and upgrading services from multiple
buildings currently in the center of campus, this new building is the first
phase of a master plan focused on health and advancement in research and
education. Once complete, the ME office will be one of just a few nationally that
is directly and physically connected with an academic health center.
The design of the ME autopsy laboratory is unique to Oklahoma,
and has raised the bar internationally for safety, workflow efficiency, and
evidence preservation. When completed, this office will be among the most
technologically advanced in the world specific to advanced postmortem
diagnostic imaging. This new building will also house the Center for Rural
Health, Center for Health Systems Innovation, and dedicated anatomy and neuro-anatomy
laboratories. Additional amenities will include classroom, conference, study,
and administration areas. The firm’s designs incorporate a similar material
palette in the interior and exterior as the A.R. and Marylouise Tandy Medical
Academic Building, completed in 2017, and expand the aesthetic connecting the
new and older parts of the campus.
“As OSU continues
to provide top-tier education and training for students across a variety of
subjects, the Center for Health Sciences has an opportunity to set the
university apart as a nationally ranked health care training institution,” says
Dewberry Principal and Project Manager Bruce Henley, AIA.
