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Healthpoint Biotherapeutics to Create State-of-the-Art Cell Sciences Manufacturing Facility
Healthpoint Biotherapeutics will begin construction in mid-2012 on a renovation of its 80,000-sf research and manufacturing campus in Fort Worth, Texas. The new facilities will comprise 25,000 sf of advanced manufacturing infrastructure, laboratories, and clean rooms for the production of cell-based therapies. Healthpoint will invest approximately $60 million to build out and staff the research and manufacturing facility over the next few years.
Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory Opens in India
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation opened the Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL) in Bangalore in June of 2012. The advanced R&D laboratory will support biomedical engineering, human aviation engineering, and the development of military life support systems and aero-medical equipment. The facility houses a hydrostatic simulator, a dynamic test centrifuge, a high altitude simulation chamber, and a testing suite for technical textiles.
PortaFab Offers New Clean Surface Demising Wall Panels
As U.S. manufacturing continues to evolve into more highly technical industries, the demand for creating environmentally controlled space within manufacturing facilities is growing. To help meet this need, PortaFab has expanded its line of SteelSpan industrial wall panels. The new line extension features a ‘no profile’ smooth surface option which provides an easy to clean solution for use in environmental control applications and for medical, microprocessing, and nanotechnology manufacturing.
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Designs Advanced Laboratories
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research has selected Diamond Schmitt Architects to design research laboratories for its new facility in the west tower of the MaRS phase two development under construction in Toronto. The project will provide wet and dry labs for genomics and bioinformatics research, conference rooms, interaction areas, a library, and core labs for microscopy, tissue culture, and bacterial culture. Occupancy is expected in fall of 2013.
Good Samaritan Hospital Breaks Ground on Patient Tower
Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., broke ground in June of 2012 on a $109 million patient tower addition and renovation. The project consists of a new five-story, 200,000-sf tower and the redesign of the existing healthcare facility. The 120-bed inpatient tower features the Cardiac Center of Excellence, a state-of-the-art cardiology unit, complete with a standard and a hybrid catheterization laboratory. The facility also boasts improved spaces for orthopedics and obstetrics.