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Blue Ridge Community College broke ground in May of 2009 on the $7.5 million Advanced Technology Center in Weyers Cave, Va. Slated for completion by spring of 2011, the 20,500-sf facility will house laboratories for instruction in machining, automated manufacturing, electronics, robotics, and R&D.

Kaleida Health is planning to break ground in July of 2009 on the $275 million Global Vascular Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. Located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the 600,000-square-foot GVI will connect to Buffalo General Hospital. Completion is expected by early 2012. An adjacent medical research and teaching building, to be managed by the University at Buffalo, will also be constructed.

The United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council is constructing the £197 million Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Designed by RMJM to foster interaction and collaboration, the facility will provide 27,000 asm of low-vibration research space for 400 scientists and 200 support staff. Construction began on the three-story project in March of 2009 and completion is expected in January of 2012.

The University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine opened the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in May of 2009. Housing advanced facilities to process, culture, and store equine stem cells, the laboratory will also provide stem cell collection kits to veterinarians for harvesting stem cells from blood or bone marrow.

Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development opened a $90,000 biosafety laboratory in Sebeta in May of 2009. The BSL-3 facility will be operated by the National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Centre. Enabling the diagnosis of zoonotic and infectious diseases, the facility includes biosafety cabinets, a refrigerated micro-centrifuge, incubators, a thermo-mixer, and a PCR work station.