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Stanford University expects approval on its land use plan to build as many as 3,018 units to house students, faculty, and staff over the coming ten years. Additional construction on the campus includes 2 million sf of classrooms, labs, and other academic facilities. The new construction would take place on 1,800 acres that have already been developed at the campus.

California School of Arts and Crafts has plans for a new 120-student residence hall at its campus in Oakland. The three-story structure will be connected to a circular facility providing common-use areas. Mark Horton/Architecture of San Francisco was selected to design the new facility. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2001, with move-in in fall 2002.

The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering has selected Boston-based Barr and Barr Inc. for two new building projects. The college is planning a 76,000-sf administration building and a 56,000-sf residence hall to accommodate 190 students.

Tufts University's Dowling Hall received an Excellence in Construction award from the Massachusetts Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors for work done by the design-builder, Newton, Mass.-based Kay Construction and Cambridge-based architectural firm, ADD Inc. The student services center and the campus safety office are housed in the seven-story, 210,000-sf building. A 152-ft glycol-heated bridge links the building with the university's upper campus.

The University of California-San Diego (UCSD) will work with the Salk Institute to construct the West Coast's largest interdisciplinary brain-imaging research facility. Construction began in November 2000 on the $13.5 million, 6,500-sf structure next to UCSD's School of Medicine. Four functional magnetic resonance imaging machines'two for human studies and two for animals'will be housed in the new structure which is scheduled for completion in October 2001.The building was designed by RBB Architects Inc. of Los Angeles. San Diego-based Soltek Pacific is the general contractor.