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The 26,000-sf Natural Sciences Building at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., is slated for occupancy in 2007. Construction on the $17.2-million facility began in fall of 2005. The building will feature four new teaching laboratories, five new classrooms, centralized science faculty offices, and a student computer room. The addition is the first facility at Mills to meet LEED™ sustainable building criteria and features reduced energy and water consumption.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has opened ts new 94,000-sf proton therapy center in Houston. The $125-million facility was constructed via a private-public partnership with investors and partners including Hitachi, Sanders Morris Harris Inc., and The Styles Co. The two-story center will be able to accommodate up to 3,500 patients annually and features one fixed-beam treatment room, three gantry treatment rooms, an experimental treatment area, a synchrotron, and beam transport system.

Kansas State University expects to complete construction of the $54-million Biosecurity Research Institute on its Manhattan campus in late summer or early fall of 2006. The 113,000-sf facility will house 31,000 sf of laboratory and training space and 10,000 sf of administrative operations. Designed by architectural firm Peckham, Guyton, Albers, and Viet, the facility began construction in fall of 2004. The construction manager at risk for the project is Turner Construction.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) expects to open the $850-million Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in late summer or early fall of 2007. Replacing the existing medical center, the facility will house Women's Services, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Resnick Neuropsychiatric, and Mattel Children's Hospitals.

Utica College in New York broke ground on the F. Eugene Romano Hall in spring of 2006. The building, slated for completion in summer of 2007, is the first phase of a planned $7-million, 23,000-sf health science and technology complex that will reach completion in approximately five years. The complex will house classrooms, laboratories, and clinical space for studies in physical and occupational therapy, health studies, nursing, psychology, and therapeutic recreation.