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Arizona State University East is building a new 27,000-sf student union on its Mesa campus. Housing student life programs, multipurpose meeting space, study areas, dining facilities, workspace for student organizations, a campus bookstore, and a game room, the building is slated for completion in August 2004. The $5.4 million project was designed by Gould Evans Associates of Phoenix. The general contractor is Turner Construction of Phoenix.

Presbyterian Healthcare Services broke ground in mid-September 2003 on the 65,000-sf Rio Rancho Medical Center in Rio Rancho, N.M. Employing approximately 40 physicians and specialists, the $17-million center will offer services including cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology, physical therapy, podiatry, pain management, and behavioral health. The project architect is Dekker/Perich/Sabatini with Klinger Constructors as general contractor. Completion is expected in May 2004.

The University of Kansas Medical Center recently broke ground on its $56 million Biomedical Research Center in Kansas City, Kan. Part of a $125 million campus development initiative, the 205,000-sf center will focus on neuroscience, genomics, cancer research, and human reproductive biology.

Guangzhou University in China has selected Watertown, Mass.-based Sasaki Associates to design Phase I of a $4 billion expansion. The project is comprised of forty million square feet on a 1,000-acre site.

The National Academy of Sciences is planning to open the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington D.C. by April of 2004. The $30 million, 6,000-sf facility will focus on bringing scientific research closer to the public. Opening exhibits at the new museum will focus on global warming and DNA.