The Claude Moore Medical Education Building will consolidate medical education programs currently scattered across Grounds in outdated facilities and create a central entrance to the School of Medicine, the only school at UVA without a dedicated teaching facility. The five story structure will be located at the corner of Lane Road and 15th Street and will be connected to Medical Research Building Five, facilitating access to the School of Medicine facilities in Jordan Hall and the Health Sciences Library.

The new facility will be a 58,000 gsf steel framed structure with glass and brick exterior. The basement level will contain a Clinical Skills Center using standardized patients to teach students examination and diagnostic skills. The ground level will be a high-tech Medical Simulation Training Center which will allow teaching complex procedures and honing vital skills in a safe, virtual environment that may be used by students, residents, and emergency medical technicians. A 162 person Learning Studio is located on the first floor near the main entrance to the facility on 15th Street. This round space is a predominate feature of the facility and will provide a Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) environment which will facilitate image based or data based problem solving in small groups. The second floor will have a student lounge and administrative offices. A 171 person lecture hall as well as additional administrative space will be on the third level.

Construction began in January 2008. The site has been excavated, shoring installed and caisson work is in progress. The building is scheduled for occupancy at the end of May 2010.