New building for engineering school at University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark completion of a new home for its engineering school.

WBHM Radio reports that the Frances and Miller Gorrie Hall is a $77 million, 110,000-square-foot building outfitted with advanced labs, research suites and peer tutoring labs. College students will begin using the building this fall.

“This is a physical manifestation of the engineering school that we aspire to be,” School of Engineering Dean Jeffrey Holmes said. 

The buiding has been named in honor of Miller Gorrie, the Birmingham-native behind the construction firm Brasfield & Gorrie, and his wife Frances.