UC Davis completed construction of the 125,000-sf Veterinary Medicine III A building in summer of 2007. The $77 million facility houses classrooms and research space to enable consolidation of the School of Veterinary Medicine in a single location. The project began construction in March of 2002 and was publicly funded. Vet Med III A is comprised of two buildings, a four-lab teaching facility for pathology, microscopy, histology, and hematology; and a five-story building housing labs for disease ecology, cellular and molecular biology, orthopedics, gross anatomy, and clinical space.
The project includes a BSL-3 lab for researching West Nile Virus and a federally supported service lab, the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank. Several laboratories are arranged in an open configuration to encourage collaborative research. The fifth of the school’s six-building plan, Vet Med III A will be complemented by the construction of Veterinary Medicine III B, to be built from 2009 to 2011.
