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Groundbreaking ceremony for engineering facility is Friday

Marquette will break ground for a new engineering facility, the Discovery Learning Complex, Friday, March 5. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in parking lot N, just south of the construction site, on the southwest corner of 16th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Speakers will include Marquette President Robert A. Wild, S.J., and OPUS Dean of Engineering Stan Jaskolski.

The building will feature an innovative Discovery Learning Laboratory and a two-story engineering materials and structural testing laboratory, as well as other new teaching and research laboratories, common areas for students and office space. The five-story, 115,000-square-foot building is being constructed on the south side of Wisconsin Avenue between 16th and 17th streets.

Demolition of several university-owned buildings on the site has been completed, with materials recycled. The new $35-million building is the first phase of a $100-million, 250,000-square-foot facility.

Click here for aerial photos of the Engineering site.