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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has selected general contractor Turner Construction to build its new 160,000-sf College of Health and Human Services facility. Designed by Pease Associates of Charlotte, the project includes laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices, a 60,000-sf pedestrian plaza and a 1,600-sf skylight. Completion is slated for July 2006.

The University of Kansas Hospital is constructing the 238,000-sf Center for Advanced Heart Care on the north side of its existing hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Designed by RTKL Associates of Baltimore, the $72-million facility is slated for completion in mid-2006. The project contractor is J.E. Dunn Construction Co. of Kansas City.

The City of Wichita dedicated the $3-million, 24,000-sf Chris Cherches CityArts Building on October 2, 2004. The facility will accommodate arts, public events, and cultural activities.  

Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has been awarded $7.5 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN). The CPN is one of six new NSF-funded centers for the development of science and engineering at the scale of the nanometer. The CPN, a partnership between researchers at Stanford, IBM, and other companies, will occupy offices and a teaching laboratory in Stanford's Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.

The University of New Mexico Hospital will initiate a $233 million expansion of its Albuquerque Children's Hospital in fall of 2004. The 487,000-sf project will include six new floors of clinical space, an improved emergency department, and a new maternity center. Completion is expected by fall of 2007.