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One of Bilfinger Berger Project Investments North American health projects, Kelowna General Hospital, opened up its new clinical teaching building earlier this week. It consists of a 34,000 square foot standalone facility and includes a 180-seat lecture theatre, a library created for both hospital and academic use, video-conferencing suites and clinical skills and resource rooms for medical undergraduates and post-graduate residents. Up to 40 medical students are expected to begin using the campus immediately, including residents in family medicine and speciality training as well as postgraduate rural family medicine students.

Construction on the building began in November 2008 and was completed on time and on budget in December 2009.

"This state-of -the-art training facility will attract top medical students who want access to the best education resources while they study, and this influx of new talent will be a great benefit to our community," said Kelowna-Mission MLA Steve Thomson.