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The Nanotechnology Innovation and Commercialization Excelerator (NICE) will renovate 100,000 sf in an existing building in Salina, N.Y., to create a nanotechnology research facility. The $16 million project will transform Building #3 in Electronics Park to provide technology development labs and a business incubator. Construction will begin on the project in early 2011 with completion expected in fall of 2012.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) broke ground in August of 2010 on the 27,000-sf Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems in Woods Hole, Mass. The facility was designed by Ellenzweig Architecture with Columbia Construction as construction manager.

The University of Guelph will open the $70 million Pathobiology and Animal Health Laboratory in October of 2010. The four-story building houses research, teaching, and animal care facilities for the Ontario Veterinary College. The project was designed by Young + Wright / IBI Group Architects and built by Bird Construction Co. The facility includes a 120-seat lecture hall, a teaching lab, seminar rooms, research laboratories, and offices.

The University of California Davis is planning to construct the 19,124-sf Respiratory Diseases Center. Supported by $14.2 million in federal stimulus funding, the facility will house research laboratories, offices, animal holding, an inhalation exposure facility, and a pulmonary function testing lab.

Ferrosan completed installation of a modular cleanroom in September of 2010. The 325-sm facility was pre-manufactured as a whole in the United Kingdom and shipped to Søborg in Denmark with final hook-up, commissioning, and validation completed on site. The cleanroom was manufactured and installed by Clean Modules. A module housing the air handling unit was pre-commissioned and connected on site.