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Huntsman Cancer Institute is planning to build the $100 million Primary Children’s and Families’ Research Center on the campus of its Salt Lake City headquarters. Accommodating 300 investigators, the 220,000-sf facility will provide advanced facilities for the study of genetic cancers. Construction is expected to begin in spring of 2014.

Columbia University Medical Center will begin construction in late 2014 on a new School of Nursing facility. The seven-story, 68,000-sf facility will provide advanced, flexible learning spaces, research suites, an atrium lobby, and event areas. Designed by a joint venture of CO Architects and FXFOWLE Architects, the project will feature a two-floor simulation training center with three clinical teaching skills labs housing 14 exam tables with mannequins and six beds.

Bayer HealthCare opened its new headquarters in Hanover Township, N.J., in October of 2013. The two-building, 700,000-sf office project consolidates operations from four separate locations and will accommodate 2,400 employees. The headquarters was constructed by transforming two obsolete structures into a spacious and sustainable facility featuring a five-story glass atrium.

The University of Missouri–St. Louis began building the $32 million Science Learning Building on October 29, 2013. Designed by Christner, the four-story, 75,000-sf facility will feature technology-rich teaching labs and a central collaboration atrium. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the project and completion is expected in December of 2015. The general contractor is K&S Associates of St. Louis.

White Plains Hospital is expanding and renovating its New York campus. Phase Two of the hospital's $108 million capital transformation campaign began in October of 2013. Designed by Perkins Eastman, the project will provide a six-story patient care building with two medical/surgical floors and 24 private patient rooms; a five-room surgical suite; an expanded radiology department; and a front entrance and lobby. Phase Two comprises 42,000 sf of new construction and 22,000 sf of renovation. Completion is expected in 2015.