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Tradeline, Inc. filters and categorizes new-construction and industry news from regional and professional journals across the country. Here you will find new projects, products, and regulatory updates.News from June 2009

Texas A&M University-Kingsville Breaks Ground on Citrus Center

DATELINE Weslaco, Texas
Texas A&M University broke ground on the Citrus Center in Weslaco on June 30, 2009. Designed by Kell Munoz of San Antonio, the research facility is slated for completion in summer of 2010. The two-story Citrus Center will house research labs, diagnost...
 6.30.09



Mercy Health Plans Replacement Hospital

DATELINE Green Township, Ohio
Mercy Health Partners is planning to build a $200 million hospital on a 60-acre site in Green Township, Ohio. Slated for occupancy in early 2014, the facility will accommodate between 200 and 250 beds. The new hospital will replace two of Mercy’s ex...
 6.30.09



Capstar Builds Advanced Data Center

DATELINE Mesquite, Texas
Dallas-based Capstar Commercial Real Estate Services is building a 770,000-sf data center in Mesquite, Texas. Developed in partnership with Cambray Group of Walnut Creek, Calif., the facility will be one the largest and most advanced data centers in the U...
 6.30.09



Baystate Medical Center Constructs Springfield Hospital

DATELINE Springfield, Ma.
Baystate Medical Center is building a $246 million hospital in Springfield, Ma. The 600,000-sf project broke ground in summer of 2008 and is slated for completion in 2012....
 6.29.09



SGS North America Opens Testing Lab in Texas

DATELINE Deer Park, Texas
SGS North America opened a new 16,500-sf state-of-the-art facility in May in Deer Park, Texas. The Houston office of LCS Constructors used the design-build method of project delivery, and completed the project in nine months. More than 75% of the building...
 6.26.09



University of Miami Plans Life Science Park

DATELINE Miami
The University of Miami (UM), working with Wexford Science & Technology of Hanover, Md., is embarking on the 211,000-sf phase one of a planned six-building, 2 million-sf UM Life Science Park aimed at both established and spin-off companies who want to...
 6.26.09



Burnham Institute for Medical Research Opens in Orlando

DATELINE Orlando, Fla.
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research has consolidated three Orlando offices in a new 175,000-sf, $85 million research facility designed to study diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Medical City is a 600-acre science and technology park within Wind...
 6.26.09



Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Expands for Research

DATELINE Skidaway Island, Ga.
The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography has opened a new $5 million, 11,000-sf facility to further their research on marine and coastal systems. The Marine and Coastal Science Research and Instructional Center (MCSRIC) houses high-tech lab, conference, off...
 6.26.09



University of Waterloo's New School of Pharmacy Launches Health Sciences Campus

DATELINE Kitchener, ON, Canada
The recently opened 120,000-sf, $53 million School of Pharmacy building for the University of Waterloo is the first element of a planned Health Science Campus. The city of Kitchener donated eight prime development acres for the planned campus, which aims ...
 6.26.09



DHS Confers SAFETY ACT Designation on BPSI' Building Sentry One

DATELINE San Francisco
Building Protection Systems, Inc., (BPSI) of San Francisco has unveiled Building Sentry One, a real-time toxin-detection identification system designed to protect buildings and people inside of them from accidental or deliberate airborne chemical or radio...
 6.22.09



Maui Community College Plans Innovative Green Science Building

DATELINE Maui, Hawaii
Maui Community College's planned $26 million, 34,000-sf science building, designed by Design Partners of Honolulu, is targeted for LEED Gold certification-a real challenge, as some of the LEED criteria, such as using building materials obtained from withi...
 6.22.09



Yamagata University Plans Organic Electronics Research Hub

DATELINE Yonezawa, Japan
The Engineering Department at Yamagata University is planning to begin construction in fall 2009 on a 6,000-square-meter research center in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture. The 1- to 2-billion yen facility will focus on research in organic electroluminescen...
 6.22.09



Study Urges Greater Emphasis on Stairs in Building Design

DATELINE Baton Rouge, La.
A Louisiana State University study published in The Southern Medical Journal concludes that greater use of stairs in buildings could help to solve the nation's weight problem. Staircases can be made a central feature of new buildings with the use of impro...
 6.22.09



Palomar College Builds New Health Sciences Facility

DATELINE San Marcos, Calif.
Thanks to the slowdown in the construction industry, the new Health Sciences Building at Palomar College is expected to come in under the anticipated $10 million price tag originally estimated for the two-story, 25,000-sf facility. Nursing and dental prog...
 6.22.09



Temple University Completes Med School Construction

DATELINE Philadelphia
Construction has finished at Temple University’s new $160 million state-of-the-art School of Medicine building. Ballinger of Philadelphia designed the 11-story, 480,000-sf facility to provide 100,000 sf for medical education,  160,000 sf for pa...
 6.15.09



Wilson College Science Center Aims at LEED Certification

DATELINE Chambersburg, Pa.
The Harry R. Brooks Complex for Science, Mathematics and Technology at Wilson College, completed in January, hopes to qualify for LEED certification. The $25 million, 76,500-sf facility, a renovation and expansion of the existing Paul Swain Havens Science...
 6.15.09



DOE and FutureGen Alliance Plan Commercial-Scale Carborn Capture and Storage Facility

DATELINE Washington, D.C.
The Department of Energy (DOE) and the FutureGen Alliance have agreed to develop plans for a commercial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility in Mattoon, Ill. The flagship facility would be the first in the country designed to reduce greenhouse ...
 6.15.09



UCSF Opens Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building

DATELINE San Francisco
The Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), opened at the university’s biomedical research and education Mission Bay campus. The 163,865-gsf, five-story building was designed by Rafael Vino...
 6.15.09



UM and Fermi Lab to Build Neutrino Detector Lab

DATELINE Ash River, Minn.
The University of Minnesota (UM) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning the NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance Experiment (NOvA), which will be built 45 feet below ground near Ash River, Minn. The $270 million project , which has r...
 6.15.09



WPI's East Hall Awarded 2009 Project of the Year

DATELINE Worcester, Mass.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded 2009 Project of the Year by the New England chapter of the Construction Management Association of America for the”green” design and construction of East Hall, a 232-bed apartment-style res...
 6.9.09



DePaul University's Science Building Aims at LEED Certification

DATELINE Chicago
DePaul’s new Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Science Building, housing the departments of chemistry, environmental sciences, and biological sciences,  was designed and constructed with LEED certification in mind. The structure contains classrooms, ...
 6.9.09



NIST to Award $120 Million for Scientific Research Construction

DATELINE Gaithersburg, Md.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will award approximately eight to twelve grants, totalling $120 million, in early 2010 to higher education institutions and nonprofits to build or expand their scientific research capabilities. The...
 6.9.09



Computer Guidance Corporation Launches eCMS as a service

DATELINE Scottsdale, Ariz.
Computer Guidance Corporation, developer of financial and project management software solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction companies, announced the launch of its eCMS construction management software solution on a SaaS (Software as a ...
 6.9.09



Lookout Ventures Plans RTP-like Development in North Carolina

DATELINE Apex, N.C.
A 1,000-acre Wake county site 12 miles from Research Triangle Park (RTP) may house another RTP-like development. “Veridia”  (a name combining Latin “veritas” or truth, and “verdant” meaning green, with “idea&...
 6.9.09



Tufts University completes Regional Biosafety Laboratory

DATELINE Grafton, Mass
Construction of the 41,000-square-foot New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory at Tufts University is now complete. The Flad & Associates design executed by Gilbane features BSL-2 and BSL-3 labs, an ABSL-3 vivarium and an insectary. This building is...
 6.1.09



Knowledge Infrastructure Program money hits Ontario, Canada

DATELINE Ontario, Canada
$2 billion from Canada's federal government is being targeted at creating a Knowledge Infrastructure Program to support health care, research, and education. $32 million of that is going to St. Clair College's Health Science Center in Windsor Essex. The h...
 6.1.09



Washington State University sets big science construction budgets

DATELINE Vancouver, Wa
The $38-million WSU Vancouver Applied Technology Classroom Building is at the top of the list of projects that will be paid for from a $196.8-million state budget allocation signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire this month. Construction of the Applied Tech buildi...
 6.1.09



Now is a good time to build!

Labor rates, material prices and competition in the commercial construction marketplace are combining to make this a great year to put up a building. Low cost of construction combined with federal stimulus money is making new construction more affordable ...
 6.1.09



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