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Horia Hulubei Institute Plans Extreme Light Infrastructure Facility
Horia Hulubei National Research Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering has selected Strabag/ED Zublin to build the Extreme Light Infrastructure facility in Magurele, Romania. The $465 million project will support laser-based nuclear physics research using gamma rays created by a particle accelerator coupled with a laser. Completion is expected in 2014. After equipment installation and building commissioning, research will commence in the facility in 2017.
Helmholtz Center Designs Diabetes Research Building
The Helmholtz Center Munich has selected HDR TMK to design the new Center of Integrated Diabetes Research in Germany. The four-story facility will include more than 50,000 sf of space dedicated to multidisciplinary diabetes research. HDR TMK will provide architectural, laboratory planning, and contract administration services for the approximately $41.6 million building. The BSL-2 life sciences center will facilitate basic research, translational research, epidemiology, and clinical applications as they relate to diabetes.
Brookhaven National Lab Opens Interdisciplinary Science Building
The U.S. Department of Energy opened the $66.8 million Interdisciplinary Science Building at Brookhaven National Lab in April of 2013. Located in Upton, N.Y., the two-story, 87,700-sf facility provides 60 laboratories for research on renewable energy and nanomaterials. The ISB features a humidity-controlled dry room for battery assembly and testing and vibration-mitigated labs for spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy (SI-STM) and molecular beam epitaxy fabrication.
University of Hawai'i Opens Cancer Research Center
The University of Hawai'i opened the new UH Cancer Center in April of 2013 in Kaka’ako. The five-story, 150,000-sf facility was designed by Shimokawa Nakamura of Honolulu and ZGF Architects of Los Angeles. Other project team members included Jacobs Engineering as laboratory design consultant with Kobayashi Group as general contractor and project manager. The collaborative facility provides advanced laboratories for biomedical research.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Builds Biologics Plant
Bristol-Myers Squibb will break ground in late 2013 on two biologics manufacturing facilities at its existing campus in Devens, Mass. The $250 million, 200,000-sf expansion will provide laboratories and offices for biologics research, manufacturing, and development. Completion is expected in 2015.