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Nova Southeastern University Breaks Ground on Center for Collaborative Research
Nova Southeastern University broke ground in February of 2014 on the 215,000-sf Center for Collaborative Research (CCR) in Davie, Fla. The $80 million multidisciplinary facility will house wet labs, an IBM supercomputer research suite, the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine, the Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research, and the Emil Buehler Research Center for Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. The building will also accommodate the General Clinical Research Center, the NSU Technology Incubator, and space for the United States Geological Survey.
Baptist Health Implements Modular Construction Methodology
Baptist Health is implementing modular construction methodology to build its 194,100-sf hospital in Conway, Ark. Pods comprising bathrooms and inpatient room headwalls are being fabricated offsite and transported to the location of the medical center. This process will shorten the duration of construction as the pods can be created while the building shell is still being erected. The completed 100-bed, three-story facility will provide seven surgical suites and a Level III trauma and emergency care center. Occupancy is expected in 2016.
University of Scranton Builds Center for Rehabilitation Education
The University of Scranton is building a $47.5 million center for rehabilitation education in Scranton, Pa. Supporting an interprofessional medical education pedagogy, the 116,000-sf facility will provide classrooms, simulation training suites, faculty offices, and 25 laboratories for programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and exercise science. The center was designed by Hemmler + Camayd and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in association with HERA Laboratory Planners.
University of Connecticut Plans Innovation Partnership Building
The University of Connecticut began construction in June of 2015 on the 119,000-sf Innovation Partnership Building in Storrs. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the $170 million project will provide flexible laboratories to support collaborative R&D with industry partners in advanced manufacturing, materials science, cyber infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.
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.