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The Science Center Plans Expansion in Philadelphia
The Science Center, a West Philadelphia business incubator providing facilities and services for early-stage life science and technology companies, plans to double its capacity with a 1.8-million-sf expansion program. Wexford Science & Technology, LLC has been selected as the development partner for Phase I of the project. The architect is Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership in conjunction with Ueland, Junker, McCauley, Nicholson of Philadelphia.
University of Chicago Dedicates Center for Integrative Science
The University of Chicago dedicated its new 400,000-sf Center for Integrative Science (CIS) building in late April 2006. The facility is designed for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in medicine and technology, much of which will be done at the nano-level, where several sciences converge. The facility will house the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, a joint effort of the Division of Biological Sciences and the division of Physical Sciences.
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Lab Plans New Research Facility
Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) has selected Flad & Associates of Madison, Wis., to design the new Physical Sciences Facility at the Lab's Richland, Wash., campus. The $224-million, 335,000-sf building will house 455 staff and 175,000 sf of lab space for subsurface science, materials science and technology, chemistry, shielded operations, radiation detection, ultra-trace analysis, and certification. The facility design will be LEED certifiable. Construction is expected to begin in early 2008.
Genzyme Tops Off New "Green" Lab and Administration Building
Genzyme celebrated the topping-off of its new 177,000-sf laboratory and administrative facility in Framingham, Mass., in April 2006. The state-of-the-art building, designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge with construction management by Bovis Lend Lease, will consolidate Genzyme scientists from a number of different locations when it opens in the third quarter of 2007.
University of Kentucky to House New Federal Research Lab
A new federally funded $25-million research laboratory will be located on the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture campus in Lexington, Ky. Design of the new facility has been awarded to the Washington, D.C., office of RTKL Associates Inc. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service will manage the building, which will include a 64,000-sf lab and a 11,000-sf greenhouse. The greenhouse is scheduled to begin construction in early 2007.