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University of Waterloo's New School of Pharmacy Launches Health Sciences Campus
The recently opened 120,000-sf, $53 million School of Pharmacy building for the University of Waterloo is the first element of a planned Health Science Campus. The city of Kitchener donated eight prime development acres for the planned campus, which aims at bringing a wide range of health-related fields, including the Waterloo Region’s first medical school, together in a compact area. The School of Pharmacy building used mainly local materials in construction.
SGS North America Opens Testing Lab in Texas
SGS North America opened a new 16,500-sf state-of-the-art facility in May in Deer Park, Texas. The Houston office of LCS Constructors used the design-build method of project delivery, and completed the project in nine months. More than 75% of the building is lab space for comprehensive laboratory testing services to support SGS’s regional as well as global customers. The facility handles petroleum, petrochemical and agricultural products, biofuels, LPG, LNG, and other commodities in accordance with ASTM, IP, UOP, ISO, and EN methods.
University of Miami Plans Life Science Park
The University of Miami (UM), working with Wexford Science & Technology of Hanover, Md., is embarking on the 211,000-sf phase one of a planned six-building, 2 million-sf UM Life Science Park aimed at both established and spin-off companies who want to work with university researchers. The facilities will encompass preconstructed wet labs, offices, and shared facilities for technology development, as well as housing for researchers and academia, and street-level retail.
Burnham Institute for Medical Research Opens in Orlando
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research has consolidated three Orlando offices in a new 175,000-sf, $85 million research facility designed to study diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Medical City is a 600-acre science and technology park within Windermere, Fla.-based Tavistock Group’s Lake Nona mixed-use master-planned community.
DHS Confers SAFETY ACT Designation on BPSI' Building Sentry One
Building Protection Systems, Inc., (BPSI) of San Francisco has unveiled Building Sentry One, a real-time toxin-detection identification system designed to protect buildings and people inside of them from accidental or deliberate airborne chemical or radiological releases. Upon detection of a biohazard, the system automatically shuts down a building's air and ventilation system. The SAFETY ACT designation is one of less than forty given to new technologies in 2008. Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Head Tom Ridge is acting as a senior advisor to the firm.