to professional practice. Overall, HOK, in
association with Stantec Architecture, led
the design of a new kind of environment
for researching, teaching and delivering
health care.
The six-storey facility is the result of a part-
nership between Alberta Health Services,
the University of Alberta and the Gov-
ernment of Alberta. The Health Sciences
Council incorporated 12 different medical
faculties at the University of Alberta in-
cluding medicine, dentistry and nursing.
“We all encounter these fields at some
point in our life,” says Stratford. “But to put
them all under one roof, from an educa-
tional point of view, from a research point
of view, is quite a big move.”
The University of Alberta wanted nothing
less than to “change the world of health
The Core Sciences Facility at Memorial
University of Newfoundland will be lo-
cated on Prince Phillip Drive and should
be completed by 2019.
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