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Merrick & Company Wins Engineering Award for Ames USDA Project
Aurora, Colo.-based Merrick & Company received an engineering excellence award in December of 2007 from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado. Merrick was recognized with a Building/Technology Systems Award for work on the BSL-3Ag Large Animal Health Facility project in Ames, Iowa. Merrick provided detailed architectural and engineering design services for one of the initial elements of the $460 million modernization of the USDA National Centers for Animal Health.
White Paper for Biotech EH&S Available
Needham, Ma.-based environmental engineering and consulting firm EH&E has authored a free white paper titled “Biosafety Review Key to Infection Control”. Aiming to help technicians and safety personnel to minimize risk of laboratory infection, the paper outlines strategies for compliance with NIH, CDC, OSHA, and BMBL guidelines.
Download the paper on EH&E website (registration required)
Emory University Partners with Ohio State University Medical Center
Emory Healthcare and Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) formed a partnership, the Alliance for Predictive and Personalized Health, in December of 2007. Initiated by Dr. Fred Sanfilippo, the chairman of Emory Healthcare and the former head of OSUMC, the initiative aims to enhance health care at the patient level with genetic breakthroughs and information technology improvements.
Texas Tech Opens Lubbock Health Sciences Center
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center opened the 152,000-sf Physicians Medical Pavilion in Lubbock, Texas in December of 2007. The $36 million patient care and research building features 162 exam rooms and 15 procedure rooms and houses family and community medicine, internal medicine, ophthalmology, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery, and surgery clinics. The project, which created additional space for research in the existing Health Sciences Center, involved 25,000-sf of renovation in that facility.
Covance Relocates To Manassas
Covance Inc., a drug development services company, has selected a 300,000-sf facility in the Innovation Technology Park in Manassas, Va. as the site for its new pharmaceutical research and development laboratory. The Prince William county facility was originally constructed as an insulin manufacturing plant for Eli Lilly. Covance will expand the facility to a total of 410,000-sf at a cost of $175 million. Construction is slated for completion by January of 2011 with occupancy expected by the end of that year. Covance is headquartered in Princeton, N.J.