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Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is proposing to build a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) pathogen research facility for the study of hazardous airborne diseases. Construction costs for the three-lab, 1,100-sf building could reach $1.5-million. Completion could be expected as early as 2003. Lawrence Livermore and New Mexico's Los Alamos Laboratory are the first Department of Energy labs to seek permission to study these pathogens.

Cytec Industries has selected Flad & Associates to design a renovation to their facility in Stamford, Ct. Flad is providing full architectural design services including programming, planning and structural engineering design for the renovation of 240,000 sf of lab and support space. Other team members include Affiliated Engineers of Gainesville, Florida, and Turner Construction of Milford, Ct., providing estimating and construction services.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas recently broke ground on a 24,000-sf renovation of laboratory and office space for the University's biochemistry department. Architect for the project is Omniplan; the contractor is McCarthy. The project includes the demolition and renovation of a portion of the third floor in Building K, a five-story research facility on the UT Southwestern campus. The labs on this floor, used for research in cell biology, were originally constructed in the mid-1970s.

San Jose State University (SJSU) will open the doors of the new $177.5-million Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on August 1, 2003. The 475,000-sf facility, the first public/private partnership in the nation between a university and a city, will feature a browsing library serving hot and cold meals, an Internet cafe, a large story-telling room, a rooftop terrace available for rental, and four multipurpose suites with videoconferencing equipment available for meetings.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has recently contracted the Korth Cos. of the District of Columbia to renovate the 58,000-sf interior of the Office of Scientific Research and the Defense Office of Hearings & Appeals in Arlington, Va.