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The University of Maryland is building a new facility for the Clark School of Engineering in College Park. Ground was broken in November of 2014 on the 184,000-sf A. James Clark Hall, a collaborative, multidisciplinary facility created to support the development of advanced biomedical technologies. Designed by Ballinger, the building will provide a new home for the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices.

The University of Aberystwyth is planning to build the $62.5 million Innovation and Enterprise Campus in Wales in the United Kingdom.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning a 100,000-sf expansion and renovation of the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens. The $155 million project will support research on avian influenza and other infectious diseases at the 35-building complex. SEPRL was awarded $45 million in federal funding in December of 2014 to initiate the design and construction process.

Canisius College is building the interdisciplinary Science Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. The first $68 million phase was completed in August of 2012, comprising renovations to the first and lower levels of the building to create teaching labs and offices for the departments of computer science, mathematics/statistics, and physics. Construction will begin in 2016 on the next $17.8 million phase of construction, which includes fit-out of the second floor of the building for programs in anthrozoology, biology, pre-med, animal behavior, ecology, and conservation.

Applied Optoelectronics, a producer of fiber-optic networking products, is expanding its headquarters and manufacturing campus in Sugar Land, Texas. The $30 million project includes construction of 111,600 sf of space for R&D, manufacturing, and administration. Completion is expected in late 2015.