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Vanderbilt University Medical Center will begin construction of a $110-million medical research facility called MRB IV on its Nashville, Tenn., campus in May 2004. Adding 200,000 sf of research space, the project will add three research floors on top of Light Hall and five research floors and two vivarium floors above Langford Auditorium. Connecting the two buildings, MRB IV features a total of 86 lab modules, a glass atrium spanning several floors, and conference space. Completion is slated for summer of 2006.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is constructing a $60-million integrated ophthalmology center for the Hamilton Eye Institute at its Memphis campus. Combining research, academic, clinic, and surgery space, the facility will develop advanced treatments for the management of ocular diseases and complex vision problems.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is planning a $115-million, 11-story research facility on its main Cincinnati campus. The 363,000-sf building will accommodate research facilities, labs, offices, and the Center for Computational Medicine, an interdisciplinary center housing human genetics, environmental health, epidemiology, mathematics, medicine, and biomedical engineering research. Scientists in the facility will be grouped according to research theme instead of academic division or department. Construction is expected to begin in summer of 2004 with completion in 2007.

Banner Thunderbird Medical Center is expanding and remodeling four major departments at its 37-acre Glendale, Ariz., campus.

Banner Baywood Heart Hospital in Mesa, Ariz. ,completed the $13-million expansion and renovation of its cardiovascular ICU and telemetry nursing suites in January 2004. Designed by van Dijk Westlake Reed Leskosky of Phoenix, Ariz., the project included the fit-out of 32,000-sf of shell space on the hospital’s fifth floor for new cardiovascular ICU rooms and telemetry, a new elevator tower, and the remodel of an existing telemetry unit on the fourth floor.