UG, oil companies to construct STEM building at Turkeyen campus

ExxonMobil Country Manager Allistair Routledge delivering remarks at the sod-turning ceremony on Friday

The University of Guyana is collaborating with one of its key development partners to construct a state-of-the-art Science and Technology building at its Turkeyen campus and is proposing to name a wing after fallen GDF officer, Brigadier Gary Beaton, who was a Graduate Engineer of UG’s Faculty of Engineering and Technology.

In a release yesterday, the university announced that on Friday, along with one of its partners, the Greater Guyana Initiative (GGI), the sod was turned for a three-part project which includes the construction of a new and modern state-of-the-art Science and Technology Building at the Turkeyen campus. It further disclosed that the other two parts of the project will include retrofitting of labs in the Faculty over the next few months and the addition of three new labs into the existing Faculty of Engineering building.