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New Millennium Building Systems Breaks Ground on Steel Fabrication Facility
New Millennium Building Systems has broken ground on a 252,000-sf steel fabrication plant in Lake City, Fla. The annual production capacity of the $30-million facility will be approximately 70,000 tons of joists, trusses, and girders, and nearly 50,000 tons of steel roof and floor decking. New Millennium is a subsidiary of Indiana-based Steel Dynamics Inc.
Memorial Hermann Healthcare Develops Houston Heart Institute
Memorial Hermann Healthcare has selected Dallas-based Trammell Crow Healthcare Services to develop and build the 173,000-sf Heart Institute at its Southwest Hospital in Houston. Slated to open in summer 2006, the $65-million, five-story, free-standing facility will initially house 45 beds with space to accommodate an additional 15 beds in the future. The building will also house an intensive care unit, three operating rooms, five cardiac catheterization labs, and a noninvasive diagnostic center.
Ellis Hospital Breaks Ground on ICU
Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. broke ground in October 2004 on a $17.6 million intensive care unit. Designed by Envision Architects of Albany, N.Y., the 36-bed unit is slated to open in summer of 2006. The two-story facility will be three times larger than the current ICU which was built thirty years ago. The construction manager for the project is Waterford-based Jersen Construction Group.
Case Western Reserve University Develops Facilities for Structural Biology and Fuel Cell Research
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has retained The Stubbins Associates and Philadelphia-based Kling to provide architecture and engineering design services for The Cleveland Center for Structural Biology (CCSB) and The Wright Fuel Cell Group facility. The CCSB will house one of only four 900 MHz NMR spectrometers in the country. Once completed, the one-story, 18,500-sf facility will house both CCSB's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility and the Advancement Power Institute's Fuel Cell Laboratory.
University of Georgia Renovates Animal Health Research Center
The University of Georgia has selected Gilbane as the design-builder for the renovation and modernization of its College of Veterinary Medicine's 73,000-sf Animal Health Research Center, a BSL-3 Ag facility in Athens, Ga. The $35-million project includes reconstruction of laboratories, large animal suites, and support spaces to meet current codes; and upgrades to the existing building layout, security, systems, and functions.