Industry News

The College of Saint Rose is building the $9 million Massry Center for the Arts in New York. The 32,000-sf facility will house a 400-seat recital hall, rehearsal spaces, a gallery, classrooms, seminar rooms, and dormitories. The Center for Communications and Interactive Media will include studios for music recording, television, and radio; a video production room; and a multimedia computer laboratory. Completion is expected in January of 2010.

Rockingham Memorial Hospital is building a $280 million replacement facility in Harrisonburg, Va. Designed by Earl Swensson Associates and built by Bovis Lend Lease, the 620,000-sf project is slated for completion in June of 2010. The five-story plus basement facility will provide 238 inpatient beds.

The international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released three new reports on the safety of engineered nanomaterials.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center opened its $25 million Regional Biocontainment Laboratory in Memphis in August of 2009. Designed by The Horrell Group and built by Inman Construction, the 31,000-sf BSL-3 facility is located in the UT-Baptist Research Park. Construction will begin on a 30,000-sf vivarium laboratory at the site in 2010.

Bridgepoint Health will break ground in early fall of 2009 on a 680,000-sf replacement hospital in Toronto. The ten-story, 472-bed facility will be built to attain LEED sustainable design certification. The project team includes Plenary Health, Innisfree, HDR/Diamond Schmitt Architects, PCL Constructors, and Johnson Controls. Occupancy is expected in spring of 2013.