Expansion Building groundbreaking ceremony

On December 12, 2014, members of the University community joined representatives from Melloul Blamey Construction and IBI Group Architects to break ground and celebrate the start the new Expansion building.

Staff, faculty, construction and planning personnel mingling at groundbreaking reception.
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Member of construction team mingling at groundbreaking reception.
People mingling at groundbreaking reception 4
Katherine Marshall, Executive Officer, showing floor plans to staff members.
Staff and faculty members mingling at groundbreaking reception
Staff members mingling at groundbreaking reception.
James Rush, Interim Dean, mingling with staff members at groundbreaking reception.
Staff and faculty members mingling at groundbreaking reception.
Brendan Lew, President of Applied Health Sciences Undergraduate Members, mingling at groundbreaking reception.
Architectural diagram, from above, of the existing Applied Health Sciences buildings and the expansion buliding.
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People mingling at groundbreaking reception.
People mingling at groundbreaking reception
People looking out window at the construction site, with an excavator at work, at the groundbreaking ceremony.
James Rush, Interim Dean, mingling at groundbreaking reception.
James Rush, Interim Dean, announcing the official groundbreaking is about to begin.
The groundbreaking shovels.
Feridun Hamdullahpur, President of the University of Waterloo, awaiting the groundbreaking.
Feridun Hamdullahpur, President, and Ian Orchard, Vice-President Academic & Provost, posing for a picture.
Feridun Hamdullahpur, President, awaiting the groundbreaking.
James Rush, alongside Feridun Hamdullahpur and Ian Orchard, speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony.
People watching and CTV filming the groundbreaking ceremony.
People watching the groundbreaking ceremony.
Employees of Melloul-Blamey Construction watching the groundbreaking ceremony.
Feridun Hamdullahpur and James Rush at the groundbreaking ceremony.
James Rush and Margaret Burnett at the groundbreaking ceremony.
The groundbreaking shovels
James Rush, Feridun Hamdullahpur and Ian Orchard offically breaking ground.
James Rush, Feridun Hamdullahpur and Ian Orchard with shovels, and dirt, mid-air.
James Rush, Feridun Hamdullahpur, Ian Orchard and student representatives with shovels, and dirt, mid-air.
James Rush, Feridun Hamdullahpur, Ian Orchard and student representatives, wearing their AHS toques, with shovels in the ground.
Employees of Melloul-Blamey Construction breaking ground alongside UWaterloo Administration and staff members.