The new LSU Dental School Annex Building is out of the ground, with the first concrete slab pour on the July 4th weekend. VergesRome/Mathes Brierre Architects, A Joint Venture, designed the new, raised, two-story Annex building to house operations that previously occupied the basement and first floors of the Clinic Building damaged in Hurricane Katrina. Operations to be housed in the new facility include dental surgery rooms, dental operatories, faculty practice dental clinic, housekeeping, shipping and receiving operations, public reception, laboratories, student teaching, research, and training facilities.