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PerkinElmer is renovating and expanding its research facilities in Hopkinton, Mass. The project includes construction of a two-story, 40,000-sf office addition and conversion of a floor in an existing building to provide 16,000 sf of chemical and biochemical laboratories. The facility will include a vivarium to support research with animal models. Lastly, an adjacent high bay warehouse building will undergo a 15,000-sf expansion to house light manufacturing and office space. The project was designer by Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects.

Duke University School of Medicine celebrated the opening of the $53 million Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education in February of 2013. Located in Durham, N.C., the six-story, 104,000-sf facility features simulation labs for medical training as well as mock surgical suites, emergency rooms, and clinical offices. The Center for Health Education also houses an auditorium, a learning hall, study rooms, and flexible classrooms for team-based learning.

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute broke ground on a $74.2 million outpatient Facility in Tampa in January of 2013. The eight-story, 150,000-sf building will house research labs, four ambulatory surgical suites, a diagnostic imaging center, clinical space, and administrative offices. Occupancy is expected in February of 2015. Moffitt is a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center and is headquartered on the campus of the University of South Florida.

Texas A&M University is planning to build the $285.6 million Pandemic Influenza Facility in the Bryan-College Station BioCorridor. The 151,600-sf project will accommodate the development of countermeasures for pandemic and biological threats and is supported by $176 million in federal funding. The facility will house cleanrooms for vaccine manufacturing, decontamination rooms, quality control labs, and a central utility plant. Construction will begin in June of 2013 with completion expected in December of 2014.

General Motors will construct a 138,000-sf addition to its Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters in Pontiac, Mich. The $200 million office facility will consolidate leased space from three disparate locations, enabling GM to reduce its engineering footprint by 640,000 sf. Completion is expected in mid-2014.