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Swedish Health opened its 550,000-sf medical campus in Issaquah, Wash., in November of 2011. The project includes a five-story medical office building, a cancer center, a birthing center, an emergency department, an imaging center, and a laboratory. The facility will initially open with 80 beds with the ability to expand to 175 beds in the future. The sustainably designed hospital features green roofs, oversized ductwork, high-efficiency boilers, and a heat recovery chiller.

Southern Research Institute began site work in November of 2011 for a business incubator facility in Birmingham, Ala. The $4.6 million project will support commercialization of research discoveries for the company's defense and engineering divisions. The 18,000-sf facility will include a large structures lab for the development of aircraft and satellite components. 

The University of California, Berkeley dedicated the $267 million Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in October of 2011. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, the 200,000-gsf, five-story facility provides 30 flexible research labs, a teaching lab, lecture halls, seminar rooms, a brain imaging center, and biocontainment space. An animal research laboratory and vivarium is located on the basement level. The center houses the Henry H. Wheeler Jr.

The University of Virginia dedicated the $75 million Physical and Life Sciences Research Building in October of 2011 in Charlottesville. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the five-story, 100,000-sf facility provides flexible research laboratories for 25 faculty members and their teams. The basement houses low-vibration space for advanced instrumentation. Construction manager W.M. Jordan Company of Richmond delivered the project in 39 months.