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University of Minnesota Duluth Renovates Life Science Building
The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) celebrated the beginning of its $15.2-million Life Science Building renovation on January 26, 2006. When it opens in fall of 2007, the 76,740-gsf facility will house space for the College of Pharmacy, Duluth on the first and second floors. Dubbed the Paddock Laboratories Pharmacy Education Center, it will consist of five classrooms, two large labs, study space, computer labs, and a student lounge.
Cornell University Plans William H. Gates Hall
Cornell University is planning to construct the $50-million William H. Gates Hall on its campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Funded in part by a $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the facility will accommodate education in computing and information science with a lecture hall, conference rooms, classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and student project spaces.
Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Constructs New Civic Center
The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce will initiate construction of its new $55-million Civic Center in Santa Fe's historic district in early 2006. The 45,000-sf Sweeney Center currently located on the site will be demolished to allow construction of the new 72,000-sf facility. Designed by Santa Fe-based Spears Architects and Denver-based Fentress Bradburn Architects, the facility will include a two-story underground parking garage when it reaches completion in fall of 2007.
Amgen Expands Operations in Ireland
Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., will spend $1-billion to expand its operations in Cork, Ireland. The project will provide new process development, bulk manufacturing, and fill-and-finish facilities and is slated to break ground later in 2006. The facilities will be operational in 2009. Additionally, Amgen will construct a new development center in Uxbridge, U.K., and expand R&D operations in Cambridge, Mass., San Franscisco, Seattle, and Cambridge, U.K. Amgen will relocate its European headquarters to Zug, Switzerland, from Lucerne.
Westminster College Plans Science Center
Westminster College is planning to construct a $30-million, 60,000-sf Science Center on its Salt Lake City campus. The three-story facility will house 14 undergraduate research labs, 14 regular labs, 2 seminar classrooms, 2 general classrooms, 1 informatics lab, faculty offices, and greenhouse spaces. Employing technologies including wireless computing, image capturing microscopes, modeling and miniaturization capabilities, and NMR capability, the building will be designed with flexible, open labs to foster interaction and enable reconfiguration.