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CBRE Acquires Johnson Controls’ Global Workplace Solutions
CBRE Group announced in late March of 2015 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Global WorkPlace Solutions (GWS) business of Johnson Controls. GWS is a market-leading provider of Integrated Facilities Management solutions for major occupiers of commercial real estate and has significant operations around the world. GWS will operate as part of CBRE’s Global Corporate Services (GCS) business, providing clients with a full range of combined occupier services including CBRE’s leasing expertise and GWS’s engineering technologies.
OSU Center for Health Sciences Plans Medical Academic and Simulation Center
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences will begin construction in summer of 2015 on the $45 million Medical Academic and Simulation Center in Tulsa. The four-story, 223,000-sf facility will include classrooms, clinical skills labs, a lecture hall, conference space, and a five-story parking garage. A hospital simulation center will include an emergency room, a surgical suite, a birthing room, an ambulance bay, and an intensive care unit to support advanced medical training.
Delaware State University Constructs Optical Science Center
Delaware State University is building the $60 million Optical Science Center for Applied Research (OSCAR) in Dover. Ground was broken on the 53,000-sf facility in October of 2012 and construction began in July of 2013. Designed by Richärd+Bauer, OSCAR will house the University’s optics program and is being built as two structures in separate construction phases.
SUNY Polytechnic Plans Energy Technology Innovation Facility
SUNY Polytechnic Institute is partnering with the New York Power Authority to create the Advanced Grid Innovation Laboratory for Energy (AGILe) in Albany, N.Y. Supporting collaborative energy infrastructure research, the facility will enable the simulation, development, testing, and deployment of advanced electrical grid technologies.
Papworth Hospital Builds Cambridge Heart & Lung Facilities
Papworth Hospital has awarded Skanska a $208 million contract to a construct a medical center for heart and lung care in the United Kingdom. Located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the $246 million replacement facility is slated for completion in 2018. A second building, the adjacent Heart & Lung Research Institute (HLRI), is being developed in partnership with the University of Cambridge.