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The University of Minnesota-Duluth broke ground on the $15 million Civil Engineering Building in July of 2008. The 34,000-sf building will house laboratories and instructional facilities and is slated for occupancy in 2010.

GE Healthcare is constructing a $165 million digital imaging production facility in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, N.Y.  Slated for completion in early 2009, the facility will produce sensors for digital mammography machines in a 60,000-sf cleanroom. LEED Gold certification for sustainable design will be sought for the project, which will feature use of natural light and rooftop solar panels to power the building’s laboratory and office wings. 

The 497,000-sf Smilow Cancer Hospital is slated for completion in 2009 in New Haven, Conn. Providing expanded clinical space for Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale Cancer Center, and Yale School of Medicine, the 14-story integrated facility will house 112 inpatient beds, a women's cancer center, surgical suites, diagnostic imaging, radiology, and outpatient treatment rooms. The Yale Cancer Center is recognized by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center.

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has selected HGA as executive architect and Kohn Pederson Fox as design architect for the second phase of expansion at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. The project will include the addition of two four-story inpatient towers to the existing Stanford Hospital & Clinics campus. Construction will begin in 2010 with completion expected in 2014.

Monsanto broke ground on its $6 million Learning Center in Gothenburg, Neb., in July of 2008. The 25,000-sf facility will support agricultural implementation of Monsanto’s grain hybrids. The project includes expansion of the company’s existing Gothenburg research facility and the creation of test plots. Completion is slated for April of 2009.