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Buffalo State College Builds Science and Mathematics Complex
Buffalo State College is building the $110 million Science and Mathematics Complex in Buffalo, N.Y. The project includes construction of a 96,000-sf facility to house the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and earth sciences. Designed by Cannon Design, the project will provide teaching and research labs, offices, a planetarium, instrumentation rooms, and a three-story atrium. Ground was broken on the facility in September of 2009.
Cooper University Hospital Builds Cancer Institute
Cooper University Hospital began building the $100 million Cooper Cancer Institute in May of 2012 in Camden, N.J. Designed by Francis Cauffman, the four-story, 103,000-sf facility will provide comprehensive cancer services in a single location and will support the integration of translational research with patient care. Completion is expected in September of 2013.
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.