About the CHEB

A space for learning together

Located at the corner of University and Summer Streets, the Collaborative Health Education Building, also known as the CHEB was officially opened on December 1, 2015. 

The only purpose-built facility of its kind in Atlantic Canada, the CHEB is designed to facilitate the transformation of health education for students and faculty from the entire spectrum of the health science professions at Dalhousie and foster a cultural shift in health care toward greater interprofessional collaborative care.

Amenities

• A flexible 200 seat classroom and seminar rooms for use of all health sciences disciplines
  
• Kellogg Library Learning Commons
• The Centre for Collaborative Clinical Learning and Research, which includes specially designed homecare, rehabilitation and hospital settings to enable realistic, simulation-based learning
• Social spaces to encourage interprofessional culture
• Linkway to the Tupper Building
  

Green features

• LEED Gold condidate
• Projected to save 40% of the energy compared to a typical building
  
• LED lighting
  
• 36% of building material made from recycled content such as pre-finished metal panels and carpet
• Light-coloured roof will reflect incoming sunlight to reduce air temperature in summer
• Low-flow plumbing fixtures
• First building on campus to use CarbonCure concrete blocks in the basement level
• Much of the construction and demolition materials were diverted from landfills and recycled