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The National Institutes of Health opened the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Md., on September 22, 2004. Totally dedicated to clinical research, the 870,000-sf Hatfield Center connects to the existing Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center.

The University of North Florida recently opened the 130,000-sf Science and Engineering Building on its main campus in Jacksonville, Fla. Programmed, planned and designed by Reynolds, Smith & Hills, this state-of-the-art facility provides laboratories, classrooms, offices, and demonstration lecture halls serving the College of Computing Sciences & Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences. Specific design elements include:

The Naval Surface Warfare Center has awarded the Haskell Company a $10-million contract to design and build the Littoral Warfare Research Facility in Panama City, Fla. The three-story, 38,000-sf facility will house, labs, classrooms, and offices supporting robotic technology and research and will be used to test, demonstrate, and integrate unmanned systems operations. Ground was broken on the facility in early fall of 2004. Completion is scheduled for early 2006.

The University of Texas Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center in Weatherford will expand its Foster Lane facility to house a 3,500-sf oncology clinic. The expansion is part of a $1.8-million technology upgrade to accommodate a $1.15-million Varian 21EX-d linear accelerator that provides intensity modulated radiation therapy. The linear accelerator will be installed by early 2005 with construction on the clinic slated for completion in late spring 2005.

Taconic Farms , a supplier of research animals to laboratories, is constructing a new breeding facility on 27 acres in the Indiana Gateway Industrial Park in Cambridge City, Ind. The $18.8-million project will be built in three phases with completion expected in September 2005. Taconic Farms is headquartered in Germantown, N.Y.