A glimpse of BYUH's ongoing transformation
Starting Summer 2025, BYUH students bid farewell to beloved campus spaces to give way for what the school website describes as an unprecedented investment in the university’s future. This five-year long project partitioned off the center of BYUH campus from the community for major construction and renovation. “This investment will renew the university’s buildings and infrastructure for the next 50 years,” BYUH website shares.
According to the construction updates detailed on BYUH website, this transformation will feature new classrooms, offices, stores, conference rooms, tutoring spaces, an auditorium, a snack bar, a welcome center, a post office and recreational areas. “The David O. McKay Classroom Building, Flag Circle, Aloha Center and McKay Faculty Building will be replaced with five new buildings. The south end of the Joseph F. Smith Library will be demolished. The Flag Circle will move northward, and the plaza will extend from the existing Aloha Plaza all the way across campus to the Heber J. Grant Building,” the website explains.
This ongoing construction across campus goes beyond bricks and mortar, according to University President John S.K. Kauwe III. “This embodies what President Jeffrey R. Holland described at my inauguration four years ago: to do all we have done in the past, but do it better, for more students and in less time,” he shared during the groundbreaking for the new McKay complex on Aug. 28. Rooted in prophecy and purpose, this progress mirrors BYUH’s commitment to shaping more disciple leaders who will go forth and make global impact.