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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.

Design of Roche Diagnostic 's new 440,000-sf PCR Manufacturing Center in Branchburg, N.J., is nearing completion. PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is leading-edge technology in the field of molecular diagnostics. The facility will include a new state-of-the-art 230,000-sf pharmaceutical manufacturing center, a 32,000-sf office building (completed), and the renovation of a 180,000-sf existing laboratory and office headquarters for Roche Molecular Systems. The manufacturing facility is slated for completion in November 2004.

The University of Michigan is constructing a $70-million facility at its School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. Part of 200,000 sf of new construction at the University, the high-rise project is an air-rights building connecting two existing public health buildings known as SPH-1 and SPH-2. Designed by Centerbrook Architects and SEi , the facility will allow greater collaboration among students, faculty, and departments.

The new 54,000-sf police station in Woodland , Calif., will be one of the nation’s first police stations to be LEED™ certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The project was a unique partnership with the City of Woodland , McCarthy Construction, and LPA . The design-build facility has functions for dispatch, C.I.D., patrol, evidence processing and storage, booking, detoxification and holding cells, as well as a community/E.O.C. room.

Opening in early 2006, the Arkansas Department of Health 's new $23-million, 82,000-sf public health laboratory will serve as a first responder facility, accommodating biological and chemical terrorism preparedness reaction for the state.