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University of Delaware health facility built on brownfield

Healthcare Design website posts photo tour of redevelopment project


The University of Delaware’s Health Sciences Complex was built on the site of a former automotive and U.S. military tank assembly plant in Newark. The challenges of using the brownfield site included inserting a vapor barrier and reusing a portion of the original assembly plant, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website.

Read the article and take the photo tour.

 

 



October 14, 2014


Topic Area: Project Management


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