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The University of North Carolina is constructing a $35-million, 100,000-gsf facility to house its Bioinformatics Program at the Charlotte Research Institute campus. Intended to foster commercial biomedical and biotechnological partnerships, the building will house wet and dry labs and space for research and instruction.

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) will initiate construction in April 2006 on the Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center on its Durham campus. Slated to open in 2007, the 65,000-sf facility will house research laboratories for biotechnology and biomanufacturing, lab support, classrooms, and an auditorium. The building will be sited adjacent to NCCU's new $36-million science complex.

A new 100,000-sf police and fire training center will begin construction in Boca Raton, Fla., in January 2006. To be built by general contractor Kaufman Lynn, the $8-million project includes the complete renovation of a building formerly occupied by Sony. The training center will include an auditorium, gymnasium, classrooms, and administrative offices. Designed by architect PGAL of Boca Raton, the facility is slated for completion in December 2006.

Georgia State University will construct a new $105-million science and laboratory facility in downtown Atlanta. The University is working with Atlanta-based engineering and architectural group Heery International on the project. 

The National Park Service has initiated construction on the Twin Creeks Science and Education Center, a research facility that will support the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an initiative to document all life forms in the 500,000-acre park.