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The University of California, Berkeley is initiating construction on the new 67,700-sf C.V. Starr Library at the Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies. When completed in 2007, the facility will be the first free-standing building in the United States dedicated to East Asian collections and will house more than 700,000 bound volumes, a rare book collection, a media and digital materials center, reference and periodical reading rooms, study rooms, offices, and a book processing center. The construction cost for the project is $32 million.

Carle Foundation Hospital is working with McCarthy to construct a $44-million expansion of its Urbana, Illinois, facility. The three-part project includes: a complex five-story, 108,000-sf vertical addition to the hospital's North Tower; a 23,000-sf expansion and renovation of the emergency department; and a new three-story, 46,000-sf ancillary building. The North Tower addition will add one floor of medical/surgical beds, one floor of NICU, one pediatric floor, and two OB floors. The expansion was designed by HDR of Omaha.

Winston-Salem University dedicated the $12.1-million Atkinson Science Building in fall of 2005. Construction on the facility began in May 2003 with occupancy in spring of 2005. Housing approximately 51,000 sf of classroom and lab space, a 3,000-sf lecture hall, and a 1,600-sf cafe, the building includes dedicated laboratories for anatomy, chemistry, biotechnique, physiology, immunology, chromatography, physics, and organic chemistry.  

The University of Pennsylvania has awarded Kling the contract for the Master Plan Study for the School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Constructed in 1972, the existing School of Nursing resides in the 165,000-sf Nursing Education Building.

Virginia Tech began construction in September 2005 on a 72,000-sf life sciences research building on its Blacksburg, Va., campus. The three-story building will house animal care facilities and life science laboratories including microbiology labs, BSL-3 facilities, and a basement floor small animal vivarium. Meeting NIH and CDC research standards, the building will accommodate over 200 faculty, students, and staff. The total project cost is approximately $35 million. Completion is slated for summer of 2007.