University of Puget Sound began construction of the Center for Health Sciences at the south end of campus in May with general contractor GLY Construction. The 42,500-sq-ft interdisciplinary center is expected to open in time for the fall 2011 school semester.

In addition to classrooms, offices and neurology, orthopedic, pediatric and outpatient clinics, it will house a motion analysis lab, biochemistry wet lab, observation suite, exercise physiology lab and a social sciences computer lab.

The building was designed by Seattle architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson to compliment Puget Sound’s existing Tudor-Gothic buildings, with simple gable roof forms, projecting bay windows, and the use of materials such as brick, terra cotta, copper detailing and local stone.