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18 months of construction, 1,700 jobs, and counting

Structural steel emerges from the ground where tomorrow's hospital tower will stand beside today's, marking another milestone in the UConn Health campus transformation under Bioscience Connecticut.

The UConn Health campus continues to be a hotbed of construction activity, as the projects to build the Bioscience Connecticut infrastructure progress on schedule and on budget.

Since the first groundbreaking 18 months ago, the projects have created nearly 1,700 construction jobs. Almost 80 percent of the contracts have been awarded to Connecticut companies.

Click on each photo for a progress report.


Bioscience Connecticut is a large-scale state investment in facility upgrades, regional collaborations, and educational expansion to support Malloy’s vision of making Connecticut an international destination for health care and bioscience research. For the latest construction site photos, visit http://bit.ly/UCHCwebcam.


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