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Aesica Opens Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility
Aesica Pharmaceuticals opened the $50 million High Capacity Manufacturing Facility in Queenborough in the United Kingdom in February of 2014. Designed and built by Scitech, the project will produce one billion tablets a year at current capacity. A second phase of expansion will enable the plant to manufacture 2.5 billion tablets annually. The building features two 59-foot spray granulators and a 925-gallon MatCon IBC (intermediate bulk container). Kirk Saunders was the civil and structural engineer for the project.
Hewlett Packard Breaks Ground on Galway R&D Facility
Hewlett Packard broke ground on an 89,000-sf R&D facility in Ballybrit in the Republic of Ireland in February of 2014. Designed by Taylor Architects, the building will house 700 employees engaged in software research and the development of cloud computing technologies. The project team includes general contractor M.J. Conroy Group, engineering consultants Arup and RPS, and project manager AECOM. Completion is expected in February of 2015.
Radford University Constructs Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Building
Radford University will begin construction in spring of 2014 on a $53 million facility to house the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences in Radford, Va. The 143,600-sf project will enable the University to consolidate all of the college’s departments in a single facility and will provide laboratories, classrooms, offices, a television studio, a moot courtroom, an emergency operations training center, a forensic lab, and student/faculty collaboration space. The project team includes Mosely Architects and construction manager S.B.
Federation of Korean Industries Opens Seoul Headquarters
The Federation of Korean Industries opened its 50-story headquarters in Seoul in early 2014. The facility features an advanced solar electric façade and has received the highest sustainable design rating from the Korean Institute of Construction Technology. The spandrel panels in the exterior walls are angled at 30 degrees upward toward the sun, maximizing the amount of energy collected, while the vision panels are angled at 15 degrees downward toward the ground, minimizing the amount of direct sun radiation and glare.
Seton Health and the University of Texas Plan Austin Teaching Hospital
Seton Health is partnering with the University of Texas Dell Medical School to build a $295 million teaching hospital in Austin. General contractor JE Dunn will begin construction on the facility in mid-2014 with completion expected in 2017. The hospital will replace the existing University Medical Center Brackenridge and will be owned and operated by Seton, a subsidiary of Ascension Health.