Industry News

SUNY Plattsburgh broke ground on a $14.2 million facility to house the Department of Computer Science and the School of Business and Economics in November of 2011. Designed by Gwathmey, Siegel, Kaufman and Associates, the building will provide faculty offices, technology-rich classrooms, a trading room, an accounting lab, reconfigurable computer labs, seminar rooms, study rooms, a rooftop garden, and two student commons. The general contractor is Pike Construction.

The University of California, Davis broke ground in November of 2011 on the 8,000-sf Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building. The $4 million facility will provide energy for UC Davis' winery with photovoltaic arrays and fuel cells, as well as supplying captured rainwater for cleaning and landscaping. The project will enable the adjacent teaching winery, brewery, and food-processing complex to be entirely self sustainable and carbon neutral. Completion is expected in late 2012.

Pfizer Animal Health opened the $7 million Equine Research Center in November of 2011 in Richland, Mich. The facility provides 24,000 sf of laboratory space for the research and development of equine vaccines and therapeutics. The center will house multidisciplinary research teams and includes paddocks and pastures for equine housing. 

Sentara Leigh Hospital will initiate a $126 million renovation of its hospital campus in Norfolk, Va., in December of 2011. The project includes construction of two five-story patient towers. The completed 517,000-sf facility will house 250 beds, including a 48-bed orthopedic and rehabilitation center. Completion is expected in January of 2016. 

The University of Minnesota has installed a new wind turbine at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory in Minneapolis. The 2.5 megawatt Clipper Liberty wind turbine will support teaching, research, and training for the sustainable energy industry. The turbine was funded by an award of $7.9 million in federal stimulus funding.