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The University of Kansas has opened the 82,000-sf Victor and Helen Regnier Hall on its Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kan. The four-level facility provides new areas for teaching and research and more than doubles the campus' original space. Regnier Hall houses a 240-seat auditorium, ten classrooms, eight tiered lecture halls, three computer labs, and faculty and administrative space.

California State University, Sacramento has completed the $17.3-million Academic Information Resource Center. Designed by Dreyfus + Blackford Architects of Sacramento and built by McCarthy , the facility will serve as the university's technology hub, providing student service facilities including: interactive learning labs, 24-hour student computer labs, video studios and classrooms, study areas, and distance learning facilities.

The recently completed $43.2-million Parnassus Services Seismic Replacement Building for the University of California, San Francisco is a six-story, 86,000-sf state-of-the-art laboratory facility built to support cancer, immunology, infectious disease, diabetes, hormone, reproductive biology, and cardiovascular research. Designed by Flad & Associates of San Francisco and constructed by McCarthy, the facility features a robotic cage wash and prep system.

Cal Poly Pomona has initiated construction on a $30.9 million, six-level, 735,000-sf parking structure. The long span, post-tensioned, cast in place structure was designed by Field Devereaux Architects and Engineers of Los Angeles. Constructed by McCarthy, the 2,378-car facility will require a precast concrete driven pile foundation system.

Miami Valley Hospital will begin construction in 2006 on a $73-million health care facility in Centerville, Ohio. The 200,000-sf 24-hour emergency care center will house cardiac diagnostic services, medical imaging services, laboratory services, cancer treatment center, breast center, and a physician office complex. Completion is slated for 2007.