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Santa Mesa College Builds Allied Health Facility
San Diego Mesa College is constructing the 49,000-sf Allied Health building in Linda Mesa, Calif. The contractor for the $20 million project is McCarthy. The facility will house a computer lab, classrooms, faculty and staff offices, and medical training laboratories for physical therapy, dentistry, and clinical skills. Completion is scheduled for August 2008.
Cornell University Creates Biofuels Lab
Cornell University is engaged in a $6 million renovation to create a biofuels laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y. The project involves the renovation of 11,500-sf of former agricultural engineering, power, and machinery lab space in Riley Robb Hall. Completion is slated for January of 2009. Housing fermenters, incubators, and analytical equipment, the facility will accommodate between 12 to 18 faculty members and 25 graduate students currently dispersed in other campus locations.
Colby College Designs Science Building
Colby College is planning to construct a new 30,000-sf science building in Waterville, Maine. Housing faculty offices, student research space, classrooms, and a computer lab, the facility will support the departments of computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Completion is slated for fall of 2010.
University of Rochester Develops Clinical and Translational Science Institute
The University of Rochester has received $50 million from the State of New York’s Upstate Revitalization Fund to construct the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The 150,000-sf facility will house labs and offices for the development and commercialization of medical research.
National Science Foundation Creates Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to construct the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in Lead, S.D. Providing research space 8,000 feet underground, the laboratory will be located in the former Homestake gold mine. Construction will begin in 2012. In the interim, the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority is constructing the Sanford Underground Laboratory in the Homestake shaft at a depth of 4,850 feet. The Sanford lab will initiate its first physics experiments beginning in late 2008.