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Beaumont Hospital's $42 million Laboratory/Research Building expansion at the hospital's Royal Oak, Mich., campus was planned and designed by Detroit-based HarleyEllis. The 131,000-sf, five-story addition opened in May 2001 and consists of new laboratory space with a fully automated blood analysis line as well as clinical pathology offices. The project also included the renovation of lab areas within the main hospital and a new pedestrian tunnel linking the Research Building to the materials handling dock.

Construction will begin in spring of 2002 on Ammendale South Technology Center in Beltsville, Md., where the Food and Drug Administration is leasing 51,000 sf of the 185,000-sf campus. Developed and leased by Manekin, the trio of one-story campus buildings was designed by Stephens Aylward & Associates.

Dutch firm Qiagen's 200,000-sf Germantown manufacturing facility and U.S. headquarters will be operational in late February 2002 after two years of construction. The biotech firm plans to hire 300 employees, one-third of whom will work in R&D operations and two-thirds in manufacturing. Qiagen Sciences, Qiagen's U.S. subsidiary, makes products and tools for life science research.

Fortress Development has selected RTKL of Baltimore to provide design, master-planning, architecture, engineering, and telecommunications services for its 425-acre Loudoun County data center and office complex. Slated to begin construction in late 2002, the $500-million project, known as CYBERPLEX@DULLES, will feature a 110,000-sf multiple-tenant data center or office building.  

George Washington University selected Einhorn Yaffee Prescott architecture and engineering to design Townhouse Row, a series of eight student rowhouses. Totalling 68,500 sf, the four-story building will house 200 students and is slated to begin construction in August of 2002. The development will feature dining rooms, a kitchen and a private courtyard.