On Wednesday May 13th the university inaugurated its new building located in Campus Centenario. UPS President Father Javier Herran, UPS-Guayaquil Vice President Andres Bayolo, the university chaplain Father Ivan Segarra, professors, students and overall staff attended the ceremony.

 The building where students majoring in social communication will have class is equipped with state of the art technology, air conditioned classrooms, and laboratories with upgraded computers. It also has synthetic soccer fields, basketball courts, volleyball courts, a taekwondo gym, a room for table tennis, a dance room, a pool and a restaurant. 

During his speech, Father Javier Herran said "Besides having a building with great infrastructure and recreation spaces, it is important to have a place to encourage and foster reading"

The UPS-Guayaquil library is one of the biggest in the country, it has at least 30,000 national and international books available for almost 8,000 salesian students as well as the general public who must present their ID in order to use the books.  Father Javier Herran said that having the library in this building inspired them to call it "Edificio del saber" or Building of Knowledge. 

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