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DePaul University will begin construction on a second science facility at its Chicago campus on July 1, 2007. The $37.2 million Science II is slated for completion in November of 2008 with occupancy in winter quarter of 2009. The 130,000-sf, four-story facility will include a mechanical penthouse and a rooftop greenhouse. The project team is comprised of Antunovich Associates of Chicago as lead design architect and Earl Walls Associates of San Diego.

The University of Michigan has dedicated its new $220-million Biomedical Science Research Building in Ann Arbor, Mich. Gilbane Building Company and joint venture partner Clark Construction were construction managers for the 502,000-sf facility, a flexible, generic research space that will serve the needs of the Medical School. Gilbane's Midwest regional office oversaw the project.

AstraZeneca has opened two new research laboratories in the United Kingdom in September of 2006. The £60 million ($112 million) Cancer Research Area Building in Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire is the largest facility in AstraZeneca's international research and development network and houses laboratory space for 265 scientists in the disciplines of bioscience, chemistry, and pharmacokinetics and includes mass spectroscopy and NMR equipment. The £16 million ($30 million) Biology Building has opened at the company's Charnwood, Loughborough, Leicesters

Purdue University dedicated the 100,000-sf Richard and Patricia Lawson Computer Science Building on its West Lafayette, Ind., campus in September of 2006. The $20-million facility will accommodate interdisciplinary research between computer scientists and biologists, nurses, engineers, teachers, and business managers. Consolidating Purdue's computer science program from five buildings to two, the facility houses classrooms, teaching and research labs, meeting rooms, a 100-seat conference room, and a lecture hall.

The University of California, San Diego completed interior construction on the expansion of its $17-million Biomedical Library in late summer of 2006. Located on the La Jolla campus, the exterior construction was completed in May 2006. The project entailed the addition of 39,000 sf and the renovation of the attached structure, creating one contiguous space totaling 74,690 sf.