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News from September 2007

Tufts University Initiates Construction on Regional Biosafety Laboratory

DATELINE North Grafton, Mass.
Tufts University began construction in late September of 2007 on its $25.8 million Regional Biosafety Laboratory in North Grafton, Mass. Part of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the facility is funded in part by $19.35 million from the National...
 9.30.07



Henry Ford Hospital Opens Surgery Simulation Center

DATELINE Detroit
Henry Ford Hospital opened the $5 million Center for Simulation, Education and Research in Detroit in early fall of 2007. The 12,000-sf facility houses two simulation operating theaters (including a $1.6 million robot system), six clinical rooms, a 30-sta...
 9.29.07



University of Iowa Breaks Ground on Institute for Biomedical Discovery

DATELINE Iowa City, Iowa
The University of Iowa broke ground on Sept. 28, 2007 on the $120 million Institute for Biomedical Discovery in Iowa City. Located next to the Carver Biomedical Research Building, the 200,000-sf facility will house laboratories for biomedical, life scienc...
 9.29.07



Wells College Dedicates Stratton Hall

DATELINE Aurora, N.Y.
Wells College will dedicate the 45,000-sf Ann Wilder Stratton ’46 Hall in Aurora, N.Y. on September 29, 2007. The flexible three-level science facility will accommodate interdisciplinary teaching and research, faculty offices, classrooms, laboratori...
 9.29.07



Peking University Health Science Center Partners with Duke Medicine

DATELINE Beijing, China
Peking University Health Science Center, located in Beijing, China, entered into a strategic partnership with Duke Medicine in September of 2007. Enabling the integration of healthcare delivery, the seven-year agreement will bring Duke University administ...
 9.29.07



Skanska Partners with U.S. HealthRealty

DATELINE Nashville, Tenn.
Skanska USA Building Inc. has formed a partnership with U.S. HealthRealty LLC to develop healthcare real estate in the United States. The new entity will be called Skanska HealthRealty and will offer pre-development and development services, capital finan...
 9.28.07



CDC Attains LEED Gold for Building 110

DATELINE Chamblee, Ga.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has attained a LEED Gold certification for Building 110 in Atlanta. The first high performance federal government laboratory to attain LEED Gold, the facility shows an upfront cost savings of $847,000 due to ...
 9.27.07



Colorado State Constructs Bioenvironmental Research Building Phase III

DATELINE Fort Collins, Colo.
Colorado State University has selected Heath Construction to build the $6.75 million third phase of Colorado State University's Bioenvironmental Research Building. The 21,700-sf, three-story addition to the existing Bioenvironmental Research Building is s...
 9.27.07



UCLA and Orthopaedic Hospital Dedicate Research Hub

DATELINE Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles’ Biomedical Sciences Research Building and Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center was dedicated on Semptember 27, 2007. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, the ...
 9.27.07



UC Berkeley Dedicates Stanley Hall

DATELINE Berkeley, Calif.
The University of California, Berkeley dedicated the $162.3-million Stanley Hall on Sept. 28, 2007. The 285,000-gsf biophysical research facility houses instructional spaces, 33 wet labs, 8 computational suites, a 900 megahertz NMR, and a mass spectrometr...
 9.26.07



Johns Hopkins Establishes Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

DATELINE Baltimore, Md.
The Johns Hopkins University has received a $100-million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Research Resources to establish The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). The five-year...
 9.25.07



George Mason Breaks Ground on Biocontainment Laboratory

DATELINE Manassas, Va.
George Mason University broke ground on Sept. 25, 2007 on its Biomedical Research Laboratory on the Prince William campus in Manassas, Va. The $42 million facility is one of 13 Regional Biocontainment Laboratories (RBL) and was funded in part by a $25 mil...
 9.25.07



University of Pittsburgh Opens Regional Biocontainment Laboratory

DATELINE Pittsburgh, Pa.
The University of Pittsburgh opened the $28 million Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) in late September of 2007. Located on the eighth and ninth floors of the 330,000-sf Biomedical Science Tower 3, the CVR is comprised of two facilities, the NIAID-funded ...
 9.24.07



Florida Children's Constructs Disney Hospital

DATELINE Orlando, Fla.
Florida Children’s Hospital began construction in September of 2007 on the first Disney-themed and branded pediatric hospital in Orlando. Funded in part by a $10-million donation from The Walt Disney Co., the $35-million, 200-bed facility is slated ...
 9.24.07



Meridian Releases Facilities Lifecycle Best Practices Study

DATELINE Folsom, Calif.
Meridian Systems, a provider of enterprise project management software for optimizing capital projects, programs and facilities, announced that a new Aberdeen Group, Inc. research study on enterprise spend for real estate and facilities management is now ...
 9.22.07



Colorado State University Celebrates Computer Science Groundbreaking

DATELINE Fort Collins, Colo.
Colorado State University officially broke ground on its new Computer Science building Fort Collins. on Sept. 21, 2007. The four story, 45,000-sf facility will house laboratories for information technology and computer science research. The three laborato...
 9.21.07



Department of Agriculture Completes Philippines Avian Influenza Diagnostic Labs

DATELINE Cebu City, Philippines
The Department of Agriculture, Region 7, completed construction of bird flu diagnostic laboratories in the Philippines in September of 2007. The Avian Influenza Diagnostic Laboratory in Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro, and Zamboanga will be managed by the Burea...
 9.21.07



University of Tennessee Builds Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Facility

DATELINE Knoxville, Tenn.
The University of Tennessee initiated construction on the $37.5 million Min Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building in Knoxville in fall of 2007. The 155,000-sf state-of-the-art facility will house laboratories, classrooms, a cleanroom, a...
 9.20.07



CDC Attains LEED Gold for Building 110

DATELINE Chamblee, Ga.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has attained a LEED Gold certification for Building 110 in Atlanta. The first high performance federal government laboratory to attain LEED Gold, the facility shows an upfront cost savings of $847,000 due to ...
 9.20.07



ASHRAE Publishes Energy Performance Comparison Standard

DATELINE Atlanta
ASHRAE published ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 105-2007, Standard Methods of Measuring, Expressing and Comparing Building Energy Performance, in September of 2007. Providing a method of energy performance comparison that can be used for any building, proposed or e...
 9.20.07



Senate Funds Maryland Biodefense Expansions

DATELINE Fort Detrick, Md.
The U.S. Senate passed the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 2008 spending bill in September of 2007. Providing over $963 million for military facility projects in Maryland, the bill will fund a two-stage expansion of the existing U.S. Army Medic...
 9.20.07



Weill Cornell Medical College To Establish Clinical and Translational Science Center

DATELINE New York
The NIH’s National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has selected Weill Cornell Medical College to establish the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) in New York. The CTSC, a biomedical research collaboration between partnering instit...
 9.19.07



North Carolina Community College System Dedicates Biotech Training Center

DATELINE Raleigh, N.C.
The North Carolina Community College System dedicated the BioNetwork Capstone Center in September of 2007. The biopharmaceutical training facility is located in the 82,500-sf Golden LEAF BTEC building on NCSU’s Centennial campus in Raleigh. The BioN...
 9.19.07



Harvard University Constructs Sustainable Science Center

DATELINE Boston, Mass.
Harvard University began construction in fall of 2007 on a four-building, 537,000-sf science center in the Allston area of Boston. Designed as a model of sustainability, the level of greenhouse gasses emitted from the complex will be 50 percent below nati...
 9.18.07



University of Maryland Dedicates Bioscience Building

DATELINE College Park, Md.
The University of Maryland, College Park dedicated the 134,000-gsf Bioscience Research Building on Sept. 18, 2007. The $69 million laboratory and teaching facility contains 35 labs and accommodates approximately 30 researchers in the disciplines of pathol...
 9.18.07



Pittsburg State University Receives Deferred Maintenance Relief

DATELINE Pittsburg, Kan.
Pittsburgh State University has received $2.8 million from the Kansas Legislature to pay for deferred maintenance. The funding is the first installment of over $10 million that the University will receive from the state to deal with deferred maintena...
 9.18.07



University of Wisconsin-Madison Receives CTSA Grant

DATELINE Madison, Wisc.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison $41 million over five years to support research at UW's Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. The funding, a Clinical and Translational Science Award, is one of...
 9.18.07



Genzyme Expands Boston Plant

DATELINE Boston, Mass.
Genzyme broke ground on a $150 million expansion of its Allston Landing manufacturing facility in Boston in September of 2007. The project will enable Genzyme to expand its workforce with 90 additional employees. Comprised of 86,000 sf of new office and m...
 9.18.07



Wayne State University Constructs Medical Education Commons

DATELINE Detroit, Mich.
Wayne State University broke ground on the $30 million, 53,000-sf Mazurek Medical Education Commons in Detroit on September 17, 2007. Serving as the center of the college’s School of Medicine, the building will house a clinical skills center and lab...
 9.17.07



ARAMARK Awarded Global Supplier by Eli Lilly & Company

DATELINE Philadelphia, Pa.
Eli Lilly and Company presented ARAMARK Business and Industry group with its 2007 Global Supplier Award in September of 2007. Recognizing ARAMARK’s continued delivery of quality products and outstanding service, the award celebrates the vendor&rsquo...
 9.15.07



Rockefeller University Constructs Collaborative Research Center

DATELINE New York, N.Y.
Rockefeller University began a $400 million renovation and construction project to create the new Collaborative Research Center in New York in September of 2007. A large glass structure will connect two rebuilt biological research laboratories. Project co...
 9.15.07



University of South Florida Opens Tampa Alzheimer's Center

DATELINE Tampa, Fla.
The University of South Florida opened the $25-million Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute in Tampa on Sept. 15, 2007. Designed by HDR Architecture, the 108,000-sf, seven-story building is the only free-standing Alzheimer&rsq...
 9.15.07



Western Michigan University Dedicates Wind Turbine

DATELINE Kalamazoo, Mich.
Western Michigan University (WMU) dedicated the area’s first direct grid connected wind turbine at the College of Engineering & Applied Science in Kalamazoo on Sept. 14, 2007. The turbine, installed by the engineering college, WMU's Physical Pla...
 9.14.07



University of Wisconsin-Madison Opens Microbial Sciences Building

DATELINE Madison, Wisc.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison opened the 330,000-sf Microbial Sciences Building on Sept. 14, 2007. Housing the departments of Bacteriology, Food Microbiology & Toxicology, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, and the Food Research Institu...
 9.14.07



University of Oklahoma Breaks Ground on Tulsa Cancer and Diabetes Center

DATELINE Tulsa, Okla.
The University of Oklahoma broke ground in September of 2007 on the $7.5 million Cancer Institute and Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center in Tulsa. Housing research, diagnosis, treatment, and education, the 23,000-sf facility is slated for completio...
 9.13.07



Walter Reed Army Medical Center Opens Military Rehabilitation Center

DATELINE Washington, D.C.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center opened the Military Advanced Training Center (MATC) in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 13, 2007. The 31,000-sf facility offers unprecedented medical care and services for amputees and limb-loss patients. The facility provides &ld...
 9.13.07



Fort Wayne Medical Oncology & Hematology Dedicates Comprehensive Cancer Center

DATELINE Fort Wayne, Ind.
Fort Wayne Medical Oncology & Hematology dedicated its $7 million physician-owned Comprehensive Cancer Center in Fort Wayne, Ind. on September 14, 2007. Housing facilities for research, treatment, and support, the 48,000-sf project was built in cooper...
 9.11.07



CSU Stanislaus Opens Naraghi Hall of Science

DATELINE Turlock, Calif.
California State University, Stanislaus opened the $55 Nora and Hashem Naraghi Hall of Science in Turlock, Calif. in September of 2007. The 110,000-sf facility took two years to build and houses 25 labs, 58 faculty and department offices, four classrooms,...
 9.11.07



University of Indiana Bloomington to Build Data Center

DATELINE Bloomington, Ind.
University of Indiana Bloomington will begin construction in fall of 2007 on a $32 million data center. The "hardened" building will house supercomputing and data storage equipment and provide protection from natural disasters. The facility will...
 9.11.07



University of Michigan Constructs Ross School of Business

DATELINE Ann Arbor, Mich.
The University of Michigan is constructing the $120 million Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor. The building is six stories high at the center and three stories high around the perimeter and totals 245,000 sf. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, t...
 9.11.07



University of Florida Breaks Ground on Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center

DATELINE Gainesville, Fla.
The University of Florida College of Medicine will break ground in September 2008 on the 90,000-sf Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center in Gainesville, Fla. A design firm for the $58-million project, which will include an expansion of the Uni...
 9.11.07



US DOE Contracts Trane for Energy Reduction Initiative

DATELINE Piscataway, N.J.
The U.S. Department of Energy has contracted Trane to develop strategies to reduce energy and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Part of the Transformational Energy Action Management (TEAM) initiative, the project aims to reduce energy intensity at the DOE&r...
 9.10.07



University of Saskatchewan Constructs Academic Health Sciences Centre

DATELINE Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
The University of Saskatchewan broke ground in early fall of 2007 on the $250 million Academic Health Sciences Centre in Saskatoon. The facility will accommodate multi-disciplinary education supporting a patient-centered health model and fostering the int...
 9.10.07



University of Kentucky Constructs College of Pharmacy

DATELINE Lexington, Kye.
The University of Kentucky began construction in fall of 2007 on the 286,200-sf College of Pharmacy facility in Lexington. The largest college of pharmacy yet constructed, the building will accommodate 47,700-sf on each of its six floors when it opens in ...
 9.10.07



Monsanto Completes Creve Coeur Data Center

DATELINE Creve Coeur, Mo.
Monsanto Company completed construction of its $21 million, 40,000-sf data center in Creve Coeur, Mo. in September of 2007. The 40,000-sf facility, supporting the company’s global data and computation needs, began construction in early 2006. It is c...
 9.10.07



Emory Opens School of Medicine Building

DATELINE Atlanta
Emory University School of Medicine opened the Emory School of Medicine Building in Atlanta in early fall of 2007. The $58.3 million, 162,000-sf medical education facility will allow for a 15 percent increase in class size and will enable Emory to fulfill...
 9.9.07



Johnson Controls to Supply Chillers to Qatar's Pearl Island

DATELINE Pearl Island, Qatar
Qatar Cool, the district cooling authority for the Pearl Island of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf, has contracted Johnson Controls to provide 46 water-cooled chiller units with an option to purchase six additional units. The order is the largest in Johnson Con...
 9.8.07



Ware Malcomb Completes 2300 Empire Center Design

DATELINE Burbank, California
Ware Malcomb’s Los Angeles office has completed the design of the 2300 Empire Center located at 2300 West Empire Boulevard in Burbank, California. Higgins Development Partners, along with equity partner Walton Street Capital, both of Chicago, Illino...
 9.7.07



University of Arkansas Dedicates Hunt Transport Center for Academic Excellence

DATELINE Fayetteville, Ark.
The University of Arkansas dedicated the $30 million J. B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Center for Academic Excellence in Fayetteville, Ark. in September of 2007. The five story, 110,000-sf facility will accommodate the College of Engineering, the Sam M. ...
 9.7.07



University of Virginia Constructs Advanced Research and Technology Building

DATELINE Charlottesville, Va.
The University of Virginia is constructing the 85,000-sf Advanced Research and Technology (ART) building in Charlottesville. Sited in the Fontaine Research Park, the four story facility is comprised of three floors above grade and an underground basement....
 9.6.07



Murdock Core Lab Nears Completion at North Carolina Research Campus

DATELINE Kannapolis, N.C.
Construction on the David Murdock Core Lab Building at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis is slated for completion in late 2007. The $200-million, 311,000-sf facility will house approximately $90 million in equipment including a 900 m...
 9.5.07



AstraZeneca Opens Clinical Research Facility In China

DATELINE Beijing, China
AstraZeneca has partnered with Peking University to open the Clinical Pharmacology Unit (CPU) on Sept. 4, 2007 in Beijing, China. Accommodating research on therapies for infections, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, the facility will accelerate progr...
 9.4.07



Cornell University Constructs Weill Hall

DATELINE Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University is constructing the $162 million Weill Hall in Ithaca, N.Y. The 250,000-sf building, also known as the Life Sciences Technology Building, is slated for completion in early 2008. The research facility will be the centerpiece of Cornell's...
 9.3.07



University College Dublin Partners to Create Academic Medical Center

DATELINE Dublin, Ireland
University College Dublin’s School of Medicine has partnered with The Mater and St. Vincent's Healthcare Group to create Ireland’s first academic medical center. Dublin Academic Health Care opens in September 2007 and will contain over 1,...
 9.3.07



CDC Power Outage Prompts Congressional Consideration of Biocontainment Security

DATELINE Washington
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing in early October of 2007 to evaluate the safety and security issues of biocontainment and infectious disease research facilities. Prompted in part by the June 15, 2007 power fa...
 9.2.07



APHIS Publishes Proposed Changes to Select Agent Rules

DATELINE Washington, D.C.
Proposed changes to the select agent rules 42CFR73, 7CFR331, and 9CFR121 were published in early September of 2007, reflecting the biennial review of the select agents and toxins lists. The main changes proposed are to the plant pathogen list with some mo...
 9.1.07



BCIT To Open Aerospace Technology Campus

DATELINE Richmond, BC
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) will open the 305,000-sf Aerospace Technology Campus (ATC) in Richmond, BC, in September 2007. Designed by Kasian Architecture, the $65 million campus is sited adjacent to Vancouver International Airport...
 9.1.07



NIH Creates Regional Centers for Influenza Research

DATELINE Bethesda, Md.
The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is creating six Regional Centers for Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. Each center will receive $23 million per year for the next seven years to...
 9.1.07



Dept. of Homeland Security Plans National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

DATELINE Washington
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology directorate is exploring possible sites for its proposed $500 million National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF). Locations include Flora, Miss.; Kansas State University in Manhattan, K...
 9.1.07



Sanford USD Medical Center Plans Sioux Falls Research Park

DATELINE Sioux Falls, S.D.
Sanford University of South Dakota Medical Center is planning to construct the 18-story Sanford Research Park on 185 acres in Sioux Falls. The project, estimated at over $100 million, will house Sanford’s advanced research projects as well as biomed...
 9.1.07



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