Purdue Approves Equine Surgery Center, Ag Sciences Facility

The $8.8 million Centaur Regional Equine Diagnostic and Surgical Center will be located near Indiana Downs.
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A new $60 million Agricultural and Life Sciences Facility that was designated as Purdie University’s top priority in a 10-year capital plan submitted to the state was given the green light to move forward by the school’s Board of Trustees on May 15. The board also took actions to advance an equine diagnostic and surgical center in Shelbyville, Indiana.

Trustees authorized planning, financing, construction, and awarding of a construction contract for the approximately 123,000 gross-square-foot Agricultural and Life Sciences Facility complex, to be built at the intersection of S. Russell and Harrison streets. The building will consolidate Department of Animal Sciences students, faculty, and staff into a unified complex to better coordinate teaching, research and engagement activities, as well as provide needed upgrades to teaching, research, and meat lab facilities.

“This new location will provide the facilities needed to maintain our continued recognition as a premier program and attract top students and faculty, as well as to support the animal industries in our state and around the world at the highest levels,” said Jay Akridge, MS, PhD, Purdue’s Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture. “In addition, the location near the Life and Health Sciences Park and adjacent to Discovery Park will allow us to enhance collaboration among our college and the colleges of Engineering, Health and Human Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine.”

Construction is projected to begin in February 2016, with occupancy slated for July 2017

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