Industry News

MannKind dedicated its new biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Danbury, Conn., in September of 2008. Designed by KlingStubbins and CRB Consulting Engineers, the 263,900-sf project will house production operations from receipt of raw materials, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, through formulation, freezing, freeze drying, powder filling, and primary packaging. The construction manager for the facility was Torcon.

Genzyme Corp. opened the $125 million Science Center in Framingham, Mass., on September 22, 2008. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the facility has attained LEED Gold sustainable design certification. The six-story, 180,000-sf building houses laboratories and offices united by a central atrium. The facility will house 350 employees engaged in cardiovascular, cancer, immunology, and neurology research.

Ascension Health is building the $278 million Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. The 560,000-sf project began construction in April of 2008 and is slated for completion in late 2010. The 386-bed hospital is being built by Turner Universal.

Baylor Health Care System is planning to build a $350 million cancer center in Dallas. The 450,000-sf facility will include an outpatient cancer center which will open in 2011. A 120-bed cancer hospital will break ground in 2010 with completion expected in 2013.

Purdue University dedicated the $25 million Martin C. Jischke Biomedical Engineering Building in West Lafayette, Ind., on September 30, 2008. Created in partnership with the state of Indiana, the building houses the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. The four-story facility features biomedical R&D laboratories and instructional facilities. Designed to support industry partnerships with medical device and biotechnology companies, the 91,000-sf interdisciplinary project includes core labs, teaching labs, faculty offices, classrooms, and meeting space.