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Williams College Begins Science Center Renovation
Williams College will begin construction by fall of 2016 on a $204 million renovation of the Unified Science Center in Williamstown, Mass. Featuring flexible laboratories for interdisciplinary teaching and research, the project includes construction of two new structures totaling 177,000 sf. The first 77,000-sf building will house research labs for biology, chemistry, and physics and is slated for completion in May of 2017.
Health Services Laboratories Creates London Pathology Headquarters
Health Services Laboratories (HSL) is renovating an existing structure known as the Halo building to create its pathology laboratory headquarters in London. Comprising five subterranean levels and ten stories above grade, the 133,000-sf facility will provide a CL3 biocontainment laboratory, specialized research suites, and the largest automated blood sciences lab in the United Kingdom. The contractor for the £21 million fit-out project is ISG.
SUNY Adirondack Constructs NSTEM Building
SUNY Adirondack will begin construction in November of 2016 on a $17 million facility in Queensbury, N.Y., to support programs in nursing, science, technology, engineering, and math. Designed by JMZ Architects and Planners, the 26,500-sf NSTEM building will provide science labs, including suites for physics, geology, and microbiology, as well as classrooms, offices, computer rooms, collaboration areas, and a greenhouse.
Mercer University Breaks Ground on Godsey Science Center
Mercer University will break ground in fall of 2016 on the $44 million Spearman C. Godsey Science Center in Macon, Ga. The 142,000-sf undergraduate facility will provide 60 teaching and research labs, lecture halls, classrooms, and offices for the departments of biology and chemistry. Completion is expected in December of 2017.
Indiana University Builds Multi-Institutional Academic Medical Center
Indiana University is building the Multi-Institutional Academic Health Science and Research Center in Evansville. Housing medical education programs for the University of Evansville, the University of Southern Indiana, and Indiana University, the four-story, 140,000-sf facility will provide a clinical research area, classrooms, a simulation center, a dental clinic, and an amphitheater. Construction began in June of 2016 and is slated for completion in February of 2018.