The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ new home

• Consists of eight floors and 628,000 square feet — equivalent to about 11 football fields, or 14.6 acres.
  
• Has been constructed by more than 3,000 skilled workers.
  
• Contains 7,400 tons of structural steel. If laid end to end, they would stretch 25 miles from the building site in Buffalo to Lewiston, New York.
  
• Features a seven-story glass atrium with seven skylights.
  
• Contains 650 ribbon-glass panels, making up 19,000 square feet, creating a glass curtain wall system that brings daylight deep inside.
  
• Features a glass rain screen façade.
  
• Has an exterior of 27,600 panels – 105,000 square feet -- of locally-sourced terra cotta, designed to connect with Buffalo’s rich architectural history.
  
• Contains state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories and an expanded patient care simulation center for clinical, surgical and robotic surgery training.
  
• Will be home to 2,000 faculty, staff and students.
  
• Makes possible a 25 percent increase in medical school class size with nearly 40 additional MD students per year.
  
• Is the first Buffalo building to be built atop a metro station, Will connect with sky-bridge connections to adjacent hospital and medical buildings on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  
• Was designed by HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm.