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Fraser Health Designs Surrey Outpatient Hospital
Fraser Health has selected BC Healthcare Solutions, led by French firm Bouygues Batiment International, to design, build, finance, and maintain its planned $150-million outpatient hospital in Surrey, British Columbia. Housing day surgery, diagnosis, and clinical care, the 148,000-sf facility is slated for completion by early 2011.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Develops Research Facilities
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s $160 million Interdisciplinary Research Complex is slated for completion by fall of 2008. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, the 473,000-sf facility will centralize and expand genetics, cellular, and virology research and will include pilot-scale fermentation capabilities. The project contractor is Oscar J. Boldt Construction of Madison.
North Dakota State University Breaks Ground on Agricultural Research Facilities
North Dakota State University broke ground on two agricultural research facilities in Fargo, N.D., on May 30, 2008. The $12 million Greenhouse Facility will house research in plant breeding, pathology, and nutrition to create higher yield crop varieties. The Beef Cattle Research Center will support research in animal nutrition and physiology, feed efficiencies, genetics, and food safety. The first phase of construction for the Beef Cattle Research Center will cost $1.6 million. Completion is expected in October of 2008.
Emory University Breaks Ground on Rollins Public Health Building
Emory University broke ground on the Claudia Nance Rollins Building in Atlanta on May 30, 2008. The 160,000-sf facility is part of the Rollins School of Public Health and is supported by a $50 million philanthropic donation. Connected by a glass bridge to the existing 137,000-sf School of Public Health facility, the multistory building will open in 2010. Designed to foster collaboration with industry partners and the U.S.
MedImmune Expands Frederick Campus
Gaithersburg-based MedImmune is constructing a 710,000-sf manufacturing complex in Frederick, Md. Fluor Corp. of Irving, Texas, joined the project team in May of 2008 and will work with Parsons of Pasadena, Calif., the original engineering contractor. The $250 million project broke ground in early fall of 2006 and includes a 331,000-sf biologics production facility with two commercial-scale bioreactors. Occupancy is slated for early 2009.