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Case Western Reserve University Develops Facilities for Structural Biology and Fuel Cell Research
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has retained The Stubbins Associates and Philadelphia-based Kling to provide architecture and engineering design services for The Cleveland Center for Structural Biology (CCSB) and The Wright Fuel Cell Group facility. The CCSB will house one of only four 900 MHz NMR spectrometers in the country. Once completed, the one-story, 18,500-sf facility will house both CCSB's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility and the Advancement Power Institute's Fuel Cell Laboratory.
University of Central Florida Develops Photonics Labs
The University of Central Florida will construct approximately 24 new laboratories at the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence in Orlando. Funded by a $1.5-million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the 12,800-sf addition will be sited in the College of Optics and Photonics facility, increasing the building's footprint to almost 95,800 sf.
Stanford University Establishes Center for Probing the Nanoscale
Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has been awarded $7.5 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN). The CPN is one of six new NSF-funded centers for the development of science and engineering at the scale of the nanometer. The CPN, a partnership between researchers at Stanford, IBM, and other companies, will occupy offices and a teaching laboratory in Stanford's Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.
SRI International Transforms Menlo Park Campus
Leading research institution SRI International is planning to transform its 1.3 million-sf Menlo Park, Calif., campus with a project estimated to cost "several hundred million dollars." The rebuilding initiative will include renovation of seventy percent of SRI's research facilities in the next ten years, with construction expected to begin in 2006.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Breaks Ground on Littoral Warfare Research Facility
The Naval Surface Warfare Center has awarded the Haskell Company a $10-million contract to design and build the Littoral Warfare Research Facility in Panama City, Fla. The three-story, 38,000-sf facility will house, labs, classrooms, and offices supporting robotic technology and research and will be used to test, demonstrate, and integrate unmanned systems operations. Ground was broken on the facility in early fall of 2004. Completion is scheduled for early 2006.