Industry News

SAIT Polytechnic is building the $400 million Trades and Technology Complex in Calgary, Alberta. The three-building, 740,000-sf project will house advanced equipment and is expected to open in September of 2012.

Brown University completed the Cognitive, Linguistics, and Psychological Sciences Building in September of 2011. The facility was created by a $42 million renovation of the existing Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory. Ground was broken on the project in June of 2010. The facility features modern laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices, an auditorium, and a teaching studio. The building will open for classes in early 2012. 

The University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College is building an animal cancer research and treatment facility. The $15 million project will house a linear accelerator for advanced radiation therapy. The 12,000-sf center will include an animal hospital with surgical suites as well as research laboratories. Occupancy is expected in late fall of 2011. 

St. Francis Hospital will break ground in October of 2011 on a $110 million expansion in Columbus, Ga. The project includes a four-story, 189,131-sf clinical services building and a four-story, 169,000-sf medical office building. The expansion will provide a total of 230 private rooms, a women's health center, and seven operating rooms. The general contractor is Skanska USA Building. Completion is expected in early 2013.

Slidell Memorial Hospital has awarded KLMK Group the project management contract for a 56,000-sf emergency room and cardiology expansion in Slidell, La. Construction will begin in March 2012 and reach completion in June of 2013. The project will support quicker patient admittance, assessment, and discharge, as well as providing additional private inpatient rooms.