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Angelo State University Opens Archer College of Health and Human Services
Angelo State University opened the $26 million Archer Health and Human Services Building in April of 2018 in San Angelo, Texas. Designed by PBK Architects, the three-story, 50,000-sf facility provides flexible lecture rooms, teaching labs, classrooms, a simulation training center, and faculty and administrative offices. The project includes a new academic testing center and houses the departments of nursing, physical therapy, and psychology. Construction began on the facility in December of 2016.
George Brown College Plans Mass Timber Research Building
George Brown College is planning to begin construction in 2021 on the Arbour, a 10-story, 175,000-sf mass timber building. Located on a brownfield site on the Toronto waterfront, the net-positive, carbon-neutral facility will house the Tall Wood Research Institute, the School of Computer Technology, flexible classrooms, research space for sustainable building technologies, and a childcare facility.
Bayer and UC Davis Create Crop Science CoLaborator
Bayer Crop Science is partnering with the University of California, Davis to create the CoLaborator facility in West Sacramento. Located in Bayer's Innovation Hub for Crop Science, the 3,000-sf facility will offer open, flexible facilities to support university-affiliated startups. Housing up to ten researchers, the project will provide equipment for the testing of agricultural and food-related innovations integrated with collaboration spaces for interaction with other entrepreneurs.
University of Otago Constructs Animal Research Facility
The University of Otago is constructing a NZD$50 million animal research building on its south campus in Dunedin, New Zealand. Located near the School of Medicine, the five-story, 42,367-sf facility will feature advanced technologies to optimize the welfare of the mice, rats, guinea pigs, birds, and pigs utilized in the University's research programs. Construction began in August of 2016 and completion is expected in early 2019.
CSU Bakersfield Designs Student Union Expansion and Aquatics Facility
California State University, Bakersfield is planning a $27 million expansion of the existing 17,000-sf student union. The two-story, 40,000-sf addition will provide a large flexible event and lecture hall, 12 conference rooms, student lounges, a game room, a loft, club project rooms, an interaction hallway, a food prep area with microwaves, and the relocated CSUB Food Pantry.