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Industry News
Gundersen Health Opens Legacy Building
Gundersen Health System opened the $180 million Legacy Building in January of 2014 in La Crosse, Wis. The 430,000-sf facility comprises six patient care floors and two service floors and features entirely private patient rooms. Designed to optimize workflows with dynamic functional adjacencies, the Legacy Building includes an emergency services department with integrated trauma and urgent care. The general contractor for the project was Kraus-Anderson Construction.
University of Anchorage Constructs Engineering & Industry Building
The University of Alaska Anchorage is building the $123 million Engineering & Industry Building. Providing classrooms and laboratories for the College of Engineering, the facility will support instruction in eleven disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil, arctic, and computer systems engineering. The 80,000-sf building will feature computer-aided-design (CAD) labs and a prototyping lab with 3D printers.
National Institutes of Health Opens Islamabad BSL-3 Lab
The National Institutes of Health opened a BSL-3 laboratory in Islamabad, Pakistan, in January of 2014. The facility will enable the rapid detection of biological agents and pathogens that pose a threat to public health. The lab will also accommodate research in virology and molecular biology in partnership with academic and industry partners.
All Children's Hospital Partners with University of South Florida on Pediatric Research Facility
All Children's Hospital is partnering with the University of South Florida to create a 300,000-sf pediatric research facility in St. Petersburg. Housing 40 investigators, the project will support medical education, training, and joint research in areas including neuroscience, behavioral health, and early childhood diseases. The estimated construction cost of the facility is $75 million.
Panola College Plans Health and Science Building
Panola College is planning to build a 64,000-sf facility to house the departments of Science and Health Science in Carthage, Texas. Designed by Corgan Associates, the $35 million facility will provide teaching labs for biology, chemistry, microbiology, physical science, anatomy, physiology, nursing, and occupational therapy. The Science-Health Science Building will also house classrooms, lecture halls, offices, computer labs, an instrumentation room, and study suites. The project contractor is HUNT Construction.