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St. Joseph Health System Expands Mission Hospital with Critical Care Facility
St. Joseph Health System has selected McCarthy Building Companies as the general contractor for a major addition to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. Construction began in March 2007 on the critical care hospital addition that will allow Mission Hospital to provide the most advanced diagnostic and critical care services to its community.
Analytical Bio-Chemistry Breaks Ground on Columbia Laboratory
Contract research organization Analytical Bio-Chemistry (ABC) broke ground in March 2007 on its new $14.4 million laboratory facility in Columbia, Mo. Sited in the University of Missouri’s Discovery Ridge Research Park, the 90,000-sf modular and scalable facility will house pharmaceutical development operations. The general contractor on the design-build project is ARCO Construction Company of St. Louis. The facility is being designed by ACI Boland Architects. Completion is slated for early 2008.
Acadia University Contracts with Johnson Controls for Sustainable Facilities Initiative
Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, is initiating an $8-million facility infrastructure improvement plan with Johnson Controls. Entitled the “Sustainability Through Facilities Innovation Initiative," the project will reduce facility operating costs by lowering consumption of electricity, fuel oil, and water through system upgrades and the implementation of building automation systems and controls.
GlaxoSmithKline Opens Singapore Chemistry Lab
GlaxoSmithKline opened its new $13-million (US) medicinal chemistry laboratory in Singapore in March 2007. The facility is located in the biomedical research hub Biopolis and is part of GSK’s existing Centre for Research in Cognitive and Neurodegenerative Disorders. The laboratory will enable researchers to engage in collaborative biology and chemistry pre-clinical research.
Canadian Federal Government Releases 2007 Research Funding
The Canadian federal government has announced the recipients of its 2007 research budget allocations. Science and technology growth will be supported by $1.3 billion in funding, including:
- $510 million to the Canada Foundation for Innovation
- $350 million to Centres of Excellence in Commercialization and Research
- $120 million to CANARIE to develop a next-generation research broadband network
- $100 million to Genome Canada
- $10 million to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research