University of Kentucky Expands Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center

LEXINGTON, KY. -
The University of Kentucky broke ground on a $28.5 million expansion and renovation of the Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center in Lexington in September of 2008. The project will include the construction of a necropsy laboratory wing and an administrative wing, nearly doubling the size of the existing 38,000-sf building, which will be completely renovated. The facility will also switch to alkaline digestion for tissue disposal. Completion is expected by 2010. The Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center is an animal health testing and clinical facility for the College of Agriculture.