This 4-story, 150,00-sf building will be the new focal point for the LSU Shreveport Medical School. The building will house a dining area, fitness center, classroom and auditoriums, clinical simulation labs, along with advanced lab spaces for studying advanced viral threats. The unique floor plan and lab spaces presented several structural challenges. Auditorium space at the first and second floors required column-free spaces with long spans and story-height long-span exposed, structural steel trusses at the 3rd and 4th floors were required to span from the main building west to the pedestal stair tower.