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Bayer Healthcare has completed a 100,000-sf office and laboratory facility in Norwood, Mass. Designed by Margulies & Associatesof Boston, the new space consists of 80,000 sf of administrative offices and support areas as well as 20,000 sf of laboratories. Supporting the company's Diagnostics Division, the facility includes visitor and training labs, a test methods lab, an analytical lab, a systems engineering lab, storage for chemicals, and controlled-temperature storage coolers.

The fast-track project was completed only nine months from the initial concept meetings. The project team included Columbia Construction and RDK Engineers. Additionally, the headquarters of Bayer's Bioproducts division is relocating from Research Triangle Park, N.C., to the company's 44-acre campus in Berkeley, Calif. A new $50,000 expansion comprised of a 33,000-sf manufacturing facility will be completed at the site by third quarter of 2006 with operations commencing in the second quarter of 2007.