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Tacoma General Hospital Opens Cardiac Center
Tacoma General Hospital opened its $22.1 million cardiac center in November of 2008 in Tacoma, Wash. The 37,240-sf facility provides consolidated cardiac care with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in a single location. Housing an intensive care unit, imaging, stress testing, and surgery, the comprehensive heart center features all private rooms.
CDC Contracts with SRA International for Select Agent Monitoring
The CDC’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins has awarded SRA International a $24.9 million contract to provide laboratory support services to the Select Agent Program. Awarded in September of 2008, the five-year contract is a recompete of work the company has supported since 2002 through the acquisition of Constella Group. Under the contract, SRA will continue to help CDC track the possession, use, and transfer of select agents in the U.S.
DuPont Completes Integrated Knowledge Center
DuPont opened the DuPont Knowledge Center in Hyderabad, India, in November of 2008. The $30 million facility houses laboratories for biotechnology, materials research, engineering design, and applications development. The project broke ground in summer of 2007 and can accommodate up to 600 scientists and staff. Housing basic research, bioinformatics, product development, and patent services, the Knowledge Center will support DuPont’s industrial and plant biotechnology operations in the Asia Pacific region.
Wainwright Memorial VA Expands Walla Walla Campus
Construction will begin in spring of 2010 on a 67,000-sf outpatient facility at Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash. The new building is part of a $71.4 million upgrade that will include renovation of the existing 47,000-sf hospital and construction of a $9 million, 22,000-sf substance abuse rehabilitation facility. Completion is expected in 2011.
AFRL Opens Facility for Innovative Research in Structures Technology
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Vehicles Directorate celebrated the opening of the $3 million Facility for Innovative Research in Structures Technology (FIRST) in November of 2008. Located in Building 65 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, FIRST will support engineering and research on the structure and thermal envelopes of air vehicles. Laboratory amenities include compressed air, water, argon gas, nitrogen gas, and liquid nitrogen. Construction began on the project in 2007.