Perkins&Will

Nemours Children’s Health opened the Advanced Delivery Unit (ADU) in April of 2026 within their flagship hospital in Wilmington, Del. The 26,000-sf facility integrates prenatal diagnosis, imaging, and in utero procedures with delivery, surgical treatment, and postpartum recovery to create a single integrated environment for the provision of coordinated care.

Loyola University Chicago began construction in March of 2026 on a $250 million facility for the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences. Located on the Lake Shore Campus in Maywood, Ill., the interdisciplinary structure will offer 150,000 sf of leading-edge space for education, research, and training, as well as an additional basement level spanning 40,000 sf.

The University of British Columbia opened the CAD 207.9 million Gateway Health building in Vancouver in February of 2026. Designed by Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen, the 270,550-sf facility showcases a six-story atrium connecting two five-story wings. This interdisciplinary nexus provides advanced teaching labs, flexible classrooms, and four large lecture halls, with interconnecting stairs reaching from the basement to the highest level to encourage physical activity.

Auburn University broke ground in February of 2026 on the Barbara Drummond Thorne Academic and Research Facility in Auburn, Ala. This vibrant new home for the College of Human Sciences will house nationally ranked and recognized programs in global studies, interior design, philanthropy and nonprofit studies, nutrition and dietetics, human development and family studies, and apparel merchandising, design, and production management.

Construction is nearing completion on Samuel Merritt University’s health sciences education campus in Oakland, Calif. In addition to revitalizing the local economy, the 10-story tower will enable the university to double enrollment over the next decade to address the Bay Area’s critical shortage of healthcare workers by expanding the provider pipeline. The $240 million facility will feature 19 classrooms, a motion analysis center, and specialized teaching and research laboratories including a cadaver anatomy lab.