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Kent State University Breaks Ground on Health and Science Facility
Kent State University broke ground on the two-story, 56,000-sf Health and Science Building in Ashtabula, Ohio, in July of 2007. The $15 million facility will accommodate nursing and healthcare education in a technology-rich environment to support leading edge biomedical training. Completion is expected in January of 2009.
McLaren Health Care Constructs Clarkston Medical Facilities
The $600 million McLaren Health Care Village is under construction in Clarkston, Mich. Created in collaboration with the Clarkston Medical Group, the 79-acre project will include a 135,000-sf medical office facility, a 30,000-sf cancer center, and a 15,000-sf ambulatory surgical facility in the first phase; completion is slated for year-end 2008. Phases two and three, to be completed over the next seven years, may include an inpatient hospital, three life science buildings, a cardiac center, and medical offices.
Gaston College Constructs Science and Technology Center
Gaston College broke ground on a $3.2 million classroom, laboratory, and office facility in July of 2007. The 14,000-sf Jerry W. Cochrane Science and Technology Center will house two science laboratories for general biology, chemistry, and microbiology. The project will begin actual construction in August of 2007 with completion slated for May of 2008.
NASA Breaks Ground on Exploration Sciences Building
NASA broke ground on July 16, 2007 on the Exploration Sciences Building in Greenbelt, Md. Located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, the three-story environmentally friendly office and laboratory building was designed by EwingCole, an architecture and engineering firm with offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. M+W Zander provided laboratory planning consultation. Providing state of the art labs and technologies, the facility will accommodate research in space and earth science.
Centre for Phenogenomics Opens in Toronto
The Centre for Phenogenomics completed its $50-million facility in the Lebovic Research Centre in Toronto in mid-2007. The 120,000-sf, 180,000-mouse facility houses research laboratories for the study of physiological phenotyping, generation of mutant mice, behavioral analysis, imaging, pathology, and cryopreservation. The project team included engineering firms LKM and SNC-Lavalin Engineering & Technology.