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Riverside City College Opens School of Nursing & Math and Science Complex
Riverside City College celebrated the completion of the $61.1 million School of Nursing & Math and Science Complex in February of 2012. The 132,000-sf facility houses lecture halls, technology-rich classrooms, biology and chemistry labs, and a virtual hospital suite with patient simulators. Construction began on the building in spring of 2010. The project contractor was Balfour Beatty Construction of San Diego.
Texas A&M University Plans Veterinary Medicine Expansion
Texas A&M University is planning a $120 million expansion and renovation of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in College Station. A new classroom and teaching lab facility will be built and the Small Animal Hospital will be expanded. The project includes the possible demolition or renovation of parts of the existing veterinary teaching hospital, veterinary sciences building, and administration building.
Johns Hopkins University Builds Undergraduate Teaching Lab and Biology Research Wing
Johns Hopkins University is building the $62 million Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories and Biology Research Wing in Baltimore. The 105,000-sf project is an expansion of the Mudd Hall Biology Complex and will provide teaching labs for biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and biophysics on the lower three floors. The upper floor will accommodate biology research with open labs, lab support, procedure space, meeting and seminar rooms, and faculty offices.
GE Aviation Builds Three Facilities
GE Aviation is building three new facilities in the United States. A 300,000-sf manufacturing plant in Ellisville, Miss., will produce composite components for jet engines and aircraft systems when it opens in early 2013. In Auburn, Ala., a 300,000-sf factory producing advanced machined parts for commercial and military engines will be completed by the end of 2012. Lastly, the 120,000-sf Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center (EPISCENTER) is under construction at the University of Dayton.
University of Nottingham Opens Gateway Building
The University of Nottingham opened the $11.4 million Gateway Building in February of 2012 in the United Kingdom. Designed by Make Architects, the four-story, 33,368-sf facility features a straw bale curtainwall that provides robust insulation for the classrooms, research labs, and offices of the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences.