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Washington & Lee University has initiated construction on a 66,000-sf art and music facility on its Lexington, Va., campus. Slated for completion in August 2006, the building will include a 250-seat performance hall, classrooms, art studios, music practice rooms, and a new art gallery. The project contractor is Birmingham, Ala.-based Brice Building Co.

Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., has completed construction of its 77,000-sf Mamie & John Burke Memorial Library. Designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardon & Abbott of Boston, the $11.6-million facility is the cornerstone of the college's master plan.

The Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences dedicated the Dybedal Center for Biosciences Research on October 4, 2004. Construction on the $15-million, 45,000-sf facility began in early 2003; the center will open by year-end 2004. Designed and built by Omar Rodriguez and Associates of Kansas City, the building will include one floor of proteomics research, one floor of clinical research, and will house the university's information technology equipment and operations.

Bank of America Corp. broke ground in August 2004 on One Bryant Park in Manhattan, a 52-story skyscraper designed to meet the platinum LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designation. Designed by Cook & Fox Architects of New York, the facility features a gray-water capture and reuse system for rainwater and wastewater; an onsite 5.1-megawatt co-generation power plant that provides seventy percent of the building's daily power suppy; and recyclable and renewable building materials.

Novavax has completed the relocation of its headquarters from Columbia, Md., to 33,000 sf in the Great Valley Corporate Center in Malvern, Pa. The facility will enable the consolidation of Novavax's women's health and drug delivery operations in a single facility. Novavax will continue to occupy two R&D labs, one located in Rockville, Md., and one in California.