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Western Michigan University Renovates School of Medicine
Western Michigan University broke ground in October of 2012 on a $68 million renovation of the School of Medicine in Kalamazoo. Designed by S/L/A/M Collaborative, the project will create a simulation center, classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, research labs, and an auditorium in the existing 320,000-sf building. A 30,000-sf addition will also be constructed. The general contractor is Walbridge. Completion is expected in May of 2014.
ATMI Breaks Ground on South Korea Manufacturing Facility
ATMI broke ground on an 118,000-sf microelectronics manufacturing facility in Suwon, South Korea, in October of 2012. The facility is located in the Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center and will begin production in mid-2013. Accommodating 100 employees, the center will produce a range of products for the semiconductor manufacturing market.
Wayne State University Breaks Ground on Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Building
Wayne State University broke ground on the $93 million Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Building in October of 2012 in Detroit. Designed by Harley Ellis Devereaux, the 200,000-sf project includes 127,700 gsf of renovated space and 75,000 gsf of new construction. Providing wet and dry labs, faculty offices, and clinical space, the facility will house programs in bioinformatics, computational biology, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, biomedical engineering, and systems biology. The general contractor is Barton Malow.
National Center for Atmospheric Research Opens Cheyenne Supercomputer Facility
The National Center for Atmospheric Research opened the $66 million NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne in October of 2012. Supporting advanced climate modeling, the 153,000-sf facility houses a 1.5 petaflop IBM supercomputer with over 100,000 processors in a 24,000-sf area with a sub-floor ten feet deep to accommodate infrastructure and cooling needs. The project was built by Saunders Construction of Denver and has attained LEED Gold sustainable design certification.
UMass Lowell Opens Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center
The University of Massachusetts Lowell opened the $80 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC) in October of 2012. Designed by HDR and built by Turner Construction, the 84,000-sf facility accommodates research in nanotechnology, molecular biology, plastics engineering, and optics. The building houses a biomedical materials development lab, a high bay manufacturing area, a compounding lab, and a nanotechnology R&D center with wet and dry chemistry, biology, and materials labs.