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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Builds New Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Building
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is planning to build a new Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Building in Rapid City, S.D. The project includes a multi-story two wing classroom and an R&D facility. The classroom portion of the building will include lecture areas, laboratory spaces, and offices. The research and development portion of the building will be open space for future development for interdisciplinary research activities.
Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Medical Nears Completion
Construction on the Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, is nearing completion. Sited between two existing fully operational hospital towers, the $103 million, 400,000-sf facility is slated to open in September of 2007. The project began construction in fall of 2004. The 10-story facility will house 16 operating rooms, a 32-bed ICU, and 128 private patient rooms.
University of Central Florida Designs College of Medicine
The University of Central Florida is designing a new $68 million College of Medicine facility at the UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando. The project team includes Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge as design architect and HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando as architect of record. The four-story, 100,000-sf building will house the medical library, classrooms, offices, and laboratories. The medical library includes study, computer, and collaboration areas.
UCSF To Build Cardiovascular Research Center
UC San Francisco is planning to build a $241-million Cardiovascular Research Institute facility at is Mission Bay, San Francisco campus. Groundbreaking is slated for 2008 with completion expected in 2011.
Merck Expands Stonewall Plant for Gardasil Production
Merck is engaged in a $57-million expansion of its Stonewall plant in Elkton, Va. to accommodate demand for its Gardasil vaccine. The project is the second phase of expansion at the facility and includes construction of a new building and installation of purification technologies for pharmaceutical production. The first $40-million phase included a vaccine fermentation unit and was completed in 2006.