British Columbia Cancer Agency
The British Columbia Cancer Foundation's new $95-million Cancer Research Centre is designed for functionality. Researchers began working in the building on the first day it opened.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Facility Serves Researchers, Patients, and the Community
Researchers hit the ground running when the British Columbia Cancer Foundation opened its new $95-million Cancer Research Centre in January.

City of Hope
Using insider input from patients, family members, nurses, scientists, and physicians, the new Helford Hospital is one of the most technologically advanced sites for cancer research and treatment. Part of the City of Hope National Medical Center, the new hospital enhances collaboration between clinical researchers, physicians, and patients.

Shaping Strategies Used for Fast-Track, Large-Scale Development
The Scripps Research Institute is extending its legacy in biomedical science from the West Coast to the East Coast by serving as the nucleus for a new biotechnology park in Palm Beach County, Fla. Based in La Jolla, Calif., Scripps is the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organization in the United States and is internationally recognized for its research in immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry neurosciences, cardiovascular and infectious diseases, cancer treatment, and synthetic vaccine development. The La Jolla facility, located in the Torrey Pines Mesa near San Diego, features one million sf of research space in 16 facilities with 2,800 employees.

Costs Come in Well Below Average for Multi-disciplinary Science Structure
With time and money being virtually synonymous these days, fast-track construction seems to be more the rule than the exception. But the University of British Columbia (UBC) may have pushed the timeline envelope even farther than usual when it received an appropriation from the provincial government to build a replacement medical school on campus. Accompanying the legislative largesse was a compelling mandate: the new half-million-sf Life Science Centre (LSC) had to be open in time for classes 26 months later, in September 2004.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's new Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies provides the university with a state-of-the-art location to conduct research and host world-class programs and symposia. The 218,000-sf, $69-million Center offers ample space for about 400 faculty and staff members, as well as graduate students. Research takes place in a next-generation infrastructure with the advanced tools to study bioprocesses on every level, from atomic to systems.

University of California, Davis
The new Sciences Laboratory Building at the University of California, Davis is designed to make learning science fun for future students. The 140,000-sf, $52-million facility is dedicated to teaching chemistry and biology to the next generation of biological scientists and to developing a scientifically literate student population.