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Johns Hopkins University will begin construction in August of 2012 on the $37.5 million Malone Hall in Baltimore. The four-story, 56,000-sf research building will house the multidisciplinary Systems Institute and the Homewood base of the Individualized Health Initiative. The design architect for the project is S/L/A/M Collaborative with Whiting-Turner as construction manager.

Duke University will begin construction in April of 2012 on a $35 million facility for the Nicholas School of the Environment in Durham, N.C. The five-story, 70,000-sf building will be connected to the adjacent Levine Science Research Center and will provide classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, computer labs, and an art gallery. The sustainably designed facility will feature a chilled beam air conditioning system, a thermal corridor, photovoltaic arrays, a green roof, and a solar hot water system. Completion is expected in summer of 2013.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for the Feinberg School of Medicine, will build a $334 million outpatient pavilion in Chicago. The 25-story building will include physician offices and is expected to open in 2014. 

The $235 million Duke Cancer Institute opened in February of 2012 in Durham, N.C. The 267,000-sf center enables Duke University to consolidate specialties and facilities previously scattered across the medical campus. The seven-story building includes 140 exam rooms, 75 infusion stations, a radiation vault, and a rooftop healing garden.  

BASF Plant Science will invest $33 million to expand its Research Triangle Park campus. An 80,000-sf building will provide plant biotechnology labs, an insect production facility, a climate-controlled greenhouse, and offices. Groundbreaking is expected in March of 2012 with completion slated for mid-2013.