Hundreds of ARUP employees joined ARUP and University of Utah leadership on a warm, autumn day to witness the groundbreaking for what will be ARUP’s fifth building in Research Park, providing an additional 200,000 square feet of laboratory space.

The building will provide employees with plenty of natural light and mountain views through more than 18,500 square feet of windows. It will be located directly across from where most of ARUP’s 65 labs are currently located—a building that was constructed almost 30 years ago.

This centralization of labs allows for easy collaboration among ARUP’s pathology experts, most of whom hold a faculty position at the U of U Medical School. It can also expedite turnaround time for certain tests that may depend on the interaction of multiple labs.

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