{"id":159258,"date":"2022-05-23T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=159258"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T23:45:37","slug":"life-sciences-building-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/23\/life-sciences-building-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr>\u2019s first major design-build project honored for excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s state-of-the-art Life Sciences Building, the university\u2019s first major design-build project completed in 2020, was recently honored with a statewide commercial real estate award.<\/p>\n

Project leaders accepted the nonprofit project award, which was presented at the 25th annual Kukulu Hale Awards<\/a> on May 6 at The Royal Hawaiian. The awards are hosted annually by NAIOP<\/abbr> Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the local chapter of the nation\u2019s leading organization for developers, owners and investors of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate.<\/p>\n

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The $65 million, three-story facility is home to the College of Natural Sciences\u2019 School of Life Sciences<\/a> and the Pacific Biosciences Research Center<\/a> (PBRC<\/abbr>), which operates one of two transmission electron microscopes in the state (the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Advanced Electron Microscopy Center<\/a> operates the second). With 21 state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories, it was built to serve more than 500 students daily and support world class research. The building also features a 600-square-foot student collaboration area, 52 graduate student workstations, five conference rooms and 28 faculty offices.<\/p>\n