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AstraZeneca Plans Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility in Macclesfield
AstraZeneca is planning to expand its Hurdsfield campus with the construction of a 95,000-sf pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Accommodating 72 new employees, Building 52 will occupy a remediated brownfield site in Macclesfield in the United Kingdom. The two-story structure will provide leading-edge formulation suites and production lines for the manufacture of prescription medicines.
UC Davis Health Breaks Ground on Tschannen Eye Institute
UC Davis Health, the academic medical center of the University of California, Davis, broke ground in late June of 2020 on the Ernest T. Tschannen Eye Institute. Located on the Sacramento campus, the 58,000-sf building will provide exceptional facilities for research, education, and patient care. The project, which is being constructed as an addition to the Ellison Ambulatory Care Center, includes the renovation of 17,500 sf of clinical space on the first floor of the existing structure. Occupancy is expected in 2022.
GRAM Opens Cleanroom and Formulation Facility
Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing (GRAM) opened a $60 million facility for injectable fill-and-finish operations in June of 2020. Tripling GRAM's existing footprint in Grand Rapids, Mich., the 61,500-sf expansion provides a Grade C cleanroom, two formulation suites, and 14,000 sf of shell space to accommodate future growth. The facility leverages leading-edge automation technologies and high-speed instrumentation to accelerate the production of parenteral therapies. The project was delivered in just 20 months by design-build contractor CRB.
University of Salford Plans Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Automation and Robotics
The University of Salford will begin construction in summer of 2021 on the £13 million Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Automation and Robotics in the United Kingdom. Designed by 5plus architects, the 21,000-sf facility will provide a variety of instructional spaces as well as specialized labs for robotics, manufacturing, and health technologies. An automotive hub on the ground floor will accelerate the development of new transportation and mobility solutions.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Plans High Containment Continuity Laboratory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will begin construction in early 2021 on the 160,000-sf High Containment Continuity Laboratory in Atlanta. Designed by a joint venture of Flad Architects and Page, the BSL-4 facility will support the CDC's mission to rapidly detect and mitigate public health hazards. Accommodating approximately 80 investigators, the state-of-the-art laboratory will be one of three centers in the world designed and certified to facilitate diagnostic research on specific, select viruses.