UW-Milwaukee’s new Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex was named the 2015 Best New Development – Education last week in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Real Estate Awards.
Known as the KIRC, the building at Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue is home to laboratories, classrooms, offices and meeting spaces for three academic disciplines: physics, chemistry and the Environmental Health Sciences doctoral program within the Zilber School of Public Health.
The KIRC is UWM’s first east side campus academic construction project in 20 years, and the first interdisciplinary building. It was built with vibration controls that allow researchers to use hypersensitive instrumentation for the most accurate data. More than 500 Milwaukee-area business executives packed The Pfister Hotel’s Grand Ballroom Thursday to help honor the newspaper’s award winners, including the Sojourner Family Peace Center, the Project of the Year.
Others receiving awards included the Milwaukee Art Museum and Milwaukee World Festival for the renovation of its headquarters near the Summerfest grounds.
