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The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is planning a $1.5 million addition to its state-of-the-art seismology research facility, the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center in Socorro, N.M. The 11,000-sf addition will house a newly established geophysics program with 20 geophysicists, engineers, and graduate research students engaged in the study of earthquakes. The project contractor is ESA Construction of Albuquerque. The facility is one of 14 New Mexico Tech construction projects slated for completion by summer of 2005. New Mexico Tech has allocated $60 million for construction projects to be completed by 2008.