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Mayo Clinic and United Therapeutics Build Lung Center
Mayo Clinic is partnering with United Therapeutics to build a $41 million lung restoration center in Jacksonville, Fla. Located on Mayo’s Southside campus, the three-story, 75,000-sf facility will support the optimization of lungs destined for transplantation, as well as providing offices, conference rooms, and biomedical research space. Whiting-Turner will begin construction on the project in late 2017 with occupancy expected in spring of 2019.
Rutgers University Opens Life Sciences Center II in Newark
Rutgers University–Newark opened the $59 million Life Sciences Center II in October of 2017. The five-story, 85,000-sf interdisciplinary facility connects three existing science buildings and features teaching labs, research labs, and a technology-rich lecture hall for active learning that can accommodate 100 students. Suites for imaging and electron microscopy are located below grade.
University of Ottawa Constructs STEM Complex
The University of Ottawa is building the CAD$115 million Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Complex. Designed by Perkins+Will Canada, the 312,000-sf facility will feature open-plan teaching labs, a dedicated prototyping center, makerspaces with 3D printers, and an entrepreneurship hub. The project team includes general contractor PCL Construction, project manager CBRE, mechanical/electrical engineer Bouthillette Parizeau, and structural engineer Cleland Jardine.
Colorado State University Opens Chemistry Building
Colorado State University celebrated the opening of the $56.4 million Chemistry Research Building in Fort Collins in October of 2017. Designed by Hord Coplan Macht and Ratio Architects, the four-story, 60,000-sf facility provides 11 faculty research areas in a collaborative open environment with an abundance of fume hoods. The laboratory design consultant for the building was Research Facilities Design (RFD).
Hitachi Chemical Expands Allendale Biomanufacturing Facility
Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions is expanding its cell and gene therapy manufacturing operations in Allendale, N.J. The project includes construction of a 49,700-sf addition accommodating the Center for Innovation and Engineering, controlled environment rooms, and labs for microbiology, manufacturing development, and quality control. An existing 30,000-sf cleanroom production facility will also be renovated. Completion is expected in mid-2018.