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U.S. State Department Constructs Beijing Embassy
The U.S. State Department is constructing a new $275-million U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the embassy is in the first phase of construction and is slated for completion in 2008 in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Sited on ten acres, the multi-structure campus will provide office space for up to 700 diplomats and office workers. The new embassy will consolidate operations currently housed in eleven different locations in Beijing. CENTRIA H.H.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Breaks Ground on Research Facility
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth broke ground on a new 22,000-sf research and laboratory facility in fall of 2005. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the two-story, $9-million project will be built as an extension to the Violette Building. The first floor has been designed with flexible, modular laboratories to accommodate chemistry, biology, psychology, engineering, and a vivarium. The second floor will house containment laboratories for research.
Hickam Air Force Base Completes Multiple Construction Projects
Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu has completed three construction projects to accommodate the arrival of eight C-17 cargo planes in 2006. Locating the high-technology planes outside the Mainland U.S. enables troops to be transported to anywhere in the Pacific Rim within 24 hours. The projects consist of a $12.6-million squadron operations facility; a $9.3-million consolidated maintenance complex; and a $6.9-million flight simulator.
Brown University Constructs Bioinformatics Core Lab Facility with NIH Funding
Brown University has received $11 million in funding from a renewal of the National Institutes of Health's Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Grant. In addition to funding research projects, the grant will create a bioinformatics core facility for conducting database analysis. A genomics core facility and a transgenic core facility for creating genetically altered mice, created by the previous NIH grant, will also be supported by the funding.
Lenovo Constructs Innovation Center in Morrisville
China-based Lenovo, the world's third largest maker of personal computers, will invest $84 million to construct a campus in Morrisville, N.C. The three-building, 500,000-sf Innovation Center will be located in the Perimeter Park corporate development. Building One will be a 179,000-sf, five-story research center. Building Two, mirroring the footprint of Building One, will begin construction in March 2006 and reach completion in early 2007. The 143,000-sf, four-story Building Three will begin construction in January 2008 and reach completion in January 2009.