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Georgia Health Sciences University Breaks Ground on Education Commons
Georgia Health Sciences University broke ground on the $76.5 million J. Harold Harrison M.D. Education Commons in November of 2012. Designed by HOK, the 172,000-sf facility will provide a 26,620-sf simulation lab, classrooms, group study spaces, and offices for the Medical College of Georgia and the College of Dental Medicine. The general contractor for the project is Skanska USA Building and the value of the construction contract is $62 million. LEED certification will be sought for the facility.
Leiden University Plans Bèta Campus
Leiden University will begin construction in May of 2013 on the $49 million Bèta Campus for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Leiden, Netherlands. The 484,380-sf facility will provide laboratories, lecture halls, offices, and an underground parking structure. General contractor Heijmans will use BIM (Building Information Modeling) in the construction process; completion is expected in September of 2015. BREEAM 'Very Good' sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility, which will feature an advanced HVAC system.
University of Western Ontario Opens Fraunhofer Composites Centre
The University of Western Ontario opened the 12,000-sf Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research in November of 2012 in London, Ontario. Located in the Advanced Manufacturing Park, the $25 million facility provides an industry-scale production environment for developing, testing, validating, and characterizing new lightweight materials and advanced manufacturing processes. The center features a Dieffenbacher material press with a clamping force of 2,500 tons.
University at Albany Plans Zero-Energy Nanotechnology Building
The University at Albany is planning to build the 200,000-sf Zero-Energy Nanotechnology (ZEN) building. A request for proposals was issued in November of 2012 with responses due by January 4, 2013. The cost of the facility is estimated at $80 million. Acting as a living laboratory, the ZEN building will provide labs, classrooms, and offices for clean energy research as well as housing the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium. The facility will have a net energy consumption of zero while supporting a robust technological infrastructure.
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center Opens in Holyoke
The $168 million Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center opened in November of 2012 in Holyoke. Representing a partnership of MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts, the collaborative 90,000-sf data center supports computational research, software development, and the creation of exascale computer technology. Exascale computing systems would be capable of reaching at least one exaflops, representing a thousandfold increase over petascale systems.