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Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Opens Advanced Neonatal Facility
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital opened the $25 million Quentin & Elisabeth Alexander Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Cleveland in March of 2009. The technology-rich facility features a surgical procedure table designed for newborns and premature babies, individual rooms with parental sleep accommodations, and 38 incubators. Expanding the hospital’s NICU space from 8,000 sf to 30,000 sf, the sustainably designed project supports healing by integrating advanced technology into a soothing environment.
University of Teesside Constructs Health Education Building
The University of Teesside began construction on a £17 million health education building in April of 2009. Located in Middlesbrough in the United Kingdom, the four-story, 4,200-sm facility will support instruction in dentistry, dental hygiene, and sports therapy. The sustainably designed building is named Centuria South and will include classrooms, offices, laboratories, and therapy facilities. The project was designed by CPMG Architects with Morgan Ashurst as general contractor. Completion is expected by 2010.
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Opens San Diego Research Facility
Ferring Pharmaceuticals opened its biopharmaceutical research facility in San Diego in April of 2009. Designed by Kornberg Associates, the 38,000-sf project transformed an existing single-story structure into a two-story laboratory and research office complex. The building includes a video conferencing room and an interstitial floor for HVAC equipment. Housing organic, peptide, and analytical chemistry labs, the facility features mobile workbenches and cabinets that connect to a horizontal utility umbilical for maximum flexibility.
SAIC Opens R&D Facility
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) officially opened its $4 million R&D facility in Crane, Ind., in March of 2009. Located on a former brownfield site in the WestGate at Crane Technology Park, the 37,800-sf building features laboratories for optics, high power lasers, rapid prototyping and development, and 4,000-sf of secure electronic warfare systems R&D space. The facility will house 200 employees for the SAIC Warfare Systems and Integration Solutions Operation.
Capital Health Builds Hopewell Hospital
Capital Health has awarded Skanska USA Building a $134 million contract to build a 968,760-sf replacement hospital in Hopewell Township, N.J. The 237-bed, two-building complex is slated for completion in October of 2011. The Hopewell hospital will provide cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, dialysis, trauma care, mental health, women’s services, and pediatric care.