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UNL Holds Engineering Complex Groundbreaking Monday

By Karla James Jun 28, 2021 | 5:26 AM

Ground will be broken at 10:30 Monday morning on the new $97-million, privately funded Kiewit Hall on the University of Nebraska – Lincoln City Campus. City and state dignitaries will participate in the traditional sod-turning within the construction site.

On Sept. 16, 2019, Kiewit Corp. joined with Chancellor Ronnie Green and College of Engineering Dean Lance C. Pérez to announce the Omaha corporation’s $20 million support of this significant expansion of Nebraska Engineering.

Kiewit Hall will serve as the academic hub for undergraduate engineering education and house Lincoln-based construction management programs. Included will be classrooms, instructional labs, Engineering Student Services, makerspaces for the college’s student organizations and a large outdoor plaza for the university community. The facility is being constructed on the east side of the university’s existing engineering complex, next to Othmer Hall and across 17th Street.