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Providence Newberg Medical Center Completes LEED(R) Gold Hospital
Providence Newberg Medical Center has constructed the first LEED® Gold certified hospital in the United States. Built by Skanska USA Building, the $70 million Newberg, Ore., facility will have repaid its initial "green" investment cost in 14 months, and in just over a year, the hospital will save nearly 26 percent in annual energy expenses.
Bayer Expands East Walpole Manufacturing Facility
German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG will break ground in July 2006 on a $100-million expansion of its manufacturing facility in East Walpole, Mass. The facility, occupied by Bayer's medical diagnostics division, produces reagents used in diagnostic tests for cancer and heart disease. The 400,000-sf building will be expanded by 116,000 sf of additional manufacturing, warehouse, and storage space. Completion is expected by year-end 2008.
Utah State University Constructs Engineering Building
Utah State University is constructing the $13-million David G. Sant Engineering Innovation Building on its Logan campus. The three-story, 34,000-sf facility is 135 feet long by 84 feet wide and will house laboratories of various sizes with modular, flexible bays.
Pfizer's Clinical Research Unit Achieves LEED(TM) Certification
Completed in April 2005, Pfizer's 62,000-sf Clinical Research Unit (CRU) in New Haven, Conn., features state-of-the-art, flexible lab and research space for clinical trials of drug certification products and accommodates 50 volunteers and 50 staff. Designed by the architectural firm The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Conn., and built by Whiting Turner of New Haven, the CRU has been awarded Silver LEED™ certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the first such designation for a building in Connecticut.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Plans Research Tower
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) celebrated the groundbreaking on June 2, 2006 of a $400-million research tower in West Philadelphia. Sited on the former Philadelphia Civic Center site, the 558,000-sf, eight-story facility will accommodate translational research and is slated for completion in spring of 2009. The project is the first phase of the larger plan for the $845-million Children's Hospital's South Campus Research Facility which will spread over nearly eight acres across from CHOP's existing facilities.