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University of Georgia Plans College of Business
The University of Georgia is planning to build a $35 million facility for the Terry College of Business in Atlanta. The multi-story building will provide classrooms and offices for graduate and undergraduate programs. The project will be built by Hardin Construction. A design firm will be selected in February of 2013.
UC San Diego Breaks Ground on Clinical and Translational Research Institute
The University of California, San Diego broke ground in January of 2013 on the $269 million Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute in La Jolla. Supporting the integration of genetic sequencing technologies into patient diagnosis and treatment, the seven-story, 315,000-sf project will provide collaborative research labs and offices for clinical investigators, informatics researchers, and biomedical scientists. The facility is located near Thornton Hospital, the Moores Cancer Center, the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, and the new Jacobs Medical Center.
GlobalFoundries Plans Malta R&D Center
GlobalFoundries will build the $2 billion Technology Development Center on its Fab 8 campus in Malta, N.Y. The 565,000-sf, three-story R&D facility will include a 90,000-sf cleanroom for advanced chip manufacturing. Construction will begin in spring of 2013 with completion expected in 2014.
RTI Biologics Breaks Ground on Logistics and Technology Center
RTI Biologics broke ground on the $14 million Logistics and Technology Center in January of 2013. Located in Alachua, Fla., the 41,165-sf facility provides cleanrooms, R&D offices, laboratories, and support space. RTI is a manufacturer of sterile biological implants. The expansion brings RTI's total campus footprint to approximately 200,000 sf.
National Institute of Virology Opens Pune BSL-4 Lab
The National Institute of Virology opened a BSL-4 laboratory in December of 2012 in Pune, India. The $12 million facility is the first level four biocontainment lab in the country and will support the detection and study of infectious disease agents and pathogens. The National Institute of Virology campus also includes existing BSL-3 and BSL-2 laboratories.