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San Francisco General Hospital broke ground on an $888 million replacement hospital in November of 2009. The 448,000-sf building will include seven stories above ground and two stories below. Providing 284 inpatient beds, the seismically-compliant facility will be built to meet LEED sustainable design standards. Occupancy is expected in 2015.

Centennial College broke ground in November of 2009 on the $46 million Library and Academic Building in Toronto. Designed by Diamond + Schmitt Architects, the four-story, 104,000-sf facility will provide a new entrance to the Progress Campus. Housing a 200-seat lecture auditorium, a library, café, a two-story atrium, classrooms, study labs, and common rooms, the building will also provide space for administrative offices and meeting rooms.

University of Rochester Medical Center is planning to initiate a $45 million expansion of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center in spring of 2010. Adding three stories atop the existing facility, the project will provide two floors of cancer research space and one floor of inpatient cancer services.

Airlangga University celebrated the opening of the Indonesia – Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CRC-ERID) and Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) Facilities in Surabaya, East Java, in November of 2009. The facility will support research and development of H1N1 and H5N1 influenza vaccines.  

Michigan Technological University is planning to break ground in spring of 2010 on the $25.3 million Great Lakes Research Center in Houghton. The 49,500-sf facility will house aquatic laboratories, offices, conference rooms, a hydraulics lab, coastal research instrumentation, and boathouse facilities. The Great Lakes Research Center will also provide space for collaborative research with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory in Vicksburg, Miss.