Industry News

Millipore Corp. opened its 110,000-sf Bioprocess R&D center in Bedford, Mass., in October of 2006. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the facility contains 47,000 sf of laboratory space. The $50-million building will accommodate development of full-scale applications performance data and processes that simulate commercial conditions and will increase the speed and quality of biopharmaceutical production.

Columbia University Medical Center in New York has received an award from the National Institutes of Health of $54 million over five years to establish the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Columbia is one of twelve academic medical centers in the U.S. to receive this Clinical and Translational Science Award. This funding will support construction that will enable Columbia to expand dedicated clinical/translational research space by 40 percent to a total of 35,000 sf.

Cuyamaca College is constructing a $25-million science and technology facility at its campus in El Cajon, Calif. Slated for completion in January 2007, the two-story, 58,668-sf facility will house ten classrooms, nine physical and life sciences laboratories, computer laboratories, and art laboratories. The construction manager for the project is Gafcon, Inc.

Construction is nearly complete for Grossmont Community College's new $19.7-million, 37,834-square-foot science building in El Cajon, Calif. The two-story facility will house laboratories for biology, chemistry, geology, and oceanography programs. The building will also accommodate faculty offices, a 40-station computer learning center, a greenhouse, and a walled native garden area. The facility completes the science and technology quadrangle, a square of four buildings on the campus that abuts a large open space.

Santiago Canyon College celebrated the grand opening of its 39,900-sf library in Orange, Calif., on September 27, 2006. Designed by LPA Architects of Irvine, Calif., the project features a two-story environmentally–friendly design with space to accommodate 100,000 books. The $15-million facility houses 13 group study rooms, a bibliographic instruction lab, a faculty resource center, audio-visual and information technology support services, and over 75 computer workstations.