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Brock University Completes Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex
Construction was completed on Brock University's $111 million Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex in May of 2012. Located in St. Catherines, Ontario, the five-story, 169,000-sf facility will provide space for the Niagara campus of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine as well as housing a business incubator, a CL3 biocontainment lab, a photophysical sciences lab, and a synthetic chemistry lab. The complex will accommodate research in infectious diseases, biotechnology, plant pathology, green chemistry, and biomedical science.
Princeton Opens University Medical Center
The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro opened in May of 2012. The $445 million, 630,000-sf facility provides 231 beds in single-patient rooms and houses centers of care for cancer, cardiology, emergency, maternity, neuroscience, pediatrics, and surgery. Designed by HOK and RMJM Hillier to meet LEED sustainable design criteria, the facility features an energy recovery system, a cogeneration plant, photovoltaic panels, and an advanced curtainwall system.
Northwestern University Breaks Ground on Music and Communication Building
Northwestern University broke ground in May of 2012 on the $117 million Music and Communication Building in Evanston, Ill. Designed by Goettsch and Partners of Chicago, the 152,000-gsf facility will house a 400-seat recital hall, a 150-seat theatre, teaching labs and studios, classrooms, practice rooms, and faculty and administrative offices. The fifth floor of the building will provide departmental space for the School of Communication. Construction will begin in early summer of 2012 and occupancy is expected in September of 2015.
University of South Alabama Expands Children's and Women's Hospital
The University of South Alabama is engaged in a $72 million expansion of the Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile. Construction began in December of 2010 on a five-story, 195,000-sf pediatric wing that will include eight operating rooms, a 20-bed ICU, a neonatal ICU, and 68 inpatient rooms. The construction cost of the addition is $45 million. The balance will fund the creation of a new central energy plant and the purchase of medical equipment.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Opens Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock opened the $15 million Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences in May of 2012. The five-story, 50,534-sf project provides research facilities for scientists and students to explore the interface between nanomaterials, plant biology, and mammalian biology, and houses advanced laboratories, offices, and a rooftop greenhouse. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the building.