The Health Science Innovation Campus wanted its first building to be a 100-year structure that would anchor the campus and serve as a magnet for new development.

The University of Denver’s new Dimond Family Residential Village and Community Commons is designed to improve the student experience by providing a space that reimagines community, connection and learning. 

Pursuing LEED Gold accreditation and delivered via progressive design-build, the innovative $96-million, 115,000-sq-ft building is a long-awaited athletics and educational resource for the college and surrounding community.

Overcoming potential delays ranging from steel fabrication and permits to wildfires and the global pandemic, the three-level facility was substantially complete just two years after construction began.

It was after 9 p.m. on Aug. 3, 2017, at the topped-out Biodesign Institute C at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Arizona State University builds facilities with outside-the-box thinking while advancing regional construction standards

While the research that takes place within the 270,000-sq-ft Allen Institute is impressive, engineering and structural accomplishments achieved while building the structure impressed ENR’s “Best of the Best” judges.