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The newly renovated Saint Luke's Neuroscience Institute opened in January of 2013 in Kansas City, Mo. The $32 million project was designed by ACI/Boland with J.E. Dunn Construction as general contractor. Integrating research with clinical care, the project provides four dedicated neurological operation rooms, a 13-bed recovery unit, three neurointerventional suites, an 18-bed ICU, and 68 private patient rooms. The duration of construction was one year.

The University of California, San Diego broke ground in January of 2013 on the $269 million Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute in La Jolla. Supporting the integration of genetic sequencing technologies into patient diagnosis and treatment, the seven-story, 315,000-sf project will provide collaborative research labs and offices for clinical investigators, informatics researchers, and biomedical scientists. The facility is located near Thornton Hospital, the Moores Cancer Center, the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, and the new Jacobs Medical Center.

GlobalFoundries will build the $2 billion Technology Development Center on its Fab 8 campus in Malta, N.Y. The 565,000-sf, three-story R&D facility will include a 90,000-sf cleanroom for advanced chip manufacturing. Construction will begin in spring of 2013 with completion expected in 2014.

RTI Biologics broke ground on the $14 million Logistics and Technology Center in January of 2013. Located in Alachua, Fla., the 41,165-sf facility provides cleanrooms, R&D offices, laboratories, and support space. RTI is a manufacturer of sterile biological implants. The expansion brings RTI's total campus footprint to approximately 200,000 sf.

Sanofi-Aventis broke ground in December of 2012 on a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia. Sited on a 377,000-sf plot of land near the city of Thuwal, the building will support the production of cardiovascular and oral anti-diabetic products.