Industry News

The University of Waterloo broke ground on the $9 million Summit Centre for the Environment in Huntsville, Ontario, in August of 2009. The 30,000-sf research facility will support environmental science and ecology with laboratories, classrooms, seminar rooms, and dormitories. Completion is expected by fall of 2010.

Princeton University will open the completed Butler College dormitories in September of 2009. The 113,000-sf sustainably designed complex can accommodate 287 students. The project also includes a classroom, a seminar room, an amphitheater courtyard, and food service. The facilities were designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners of New York.

The Department of Agriculture announced in June of 2009 that it will provide $176 million in funding for renovations, repairs, and maintenance at 36 laboratory facilities. The funding has been allocated from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Industrial centrifuge manufacturer Centrisys Corp. broke ground on a 30,000-sf expansion of its headquarters in Kenosha, Wis., in August of 2009. The project will include the creation of additional manufacturing space for a total of 95,000-sf. The cost of the expansion, including new equipment, is approximately $3 million. Completion is expected in November of 2009.

The University of Colorado dedicated the $56 million Science and Engineering Building in Colorado Springs in August of 2009. The 156,000-sf facility houses 53 research labs, 32 teaching labs, and 11 classrooms. The sustainably designed building houses the departments of biology, physics, and mechanical and aerospace engineering, as well as the National Institute for Science, Space, and Security Centers, and the CU Institute for Bioenergetics. Ground was broken for the project in 2006.