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Promega will break ground on a cGMP manufacturing facility in September of 2011 in Fitchburg, Wis. The 260,000-sf building will support production of molecular biology products including reagents and sample preparation solutions. The main facility was designed by Uihlein-Wilson Architects of Milwaukee and the cGMP facility was designed by EwingCole of Philadelphia. Archemy Consulting of Vancouver, B.C., is providing design integration services and sustainable design consultation.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center opened the $70 million College of Pharmacy in August of 2011. Ground was broken on the six-story, 183,000-sf facility in fall of 2008. The building is located in the UT-Baptist Research Park in Memphis.

The University of Rochester opened the $10 million Integrated Nanosystems Center in September of 2011 in Rochester, N.Y. Located in the basement of the existing Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics, the facility is known as URNano and provides laboratory space for research and fabrication. 

Dakota Wesleyan University will break ground in September of 2011 on an $11.5 million health sciences center in Mitchell, S.D. The four-story, 48,000-sf facility will house teaching labs for chemistry, biology and physics, two research labs, four nursing simulation suites, classrooms, and faculty offices.

Colorado State University's Research Innovation Center was awarded LEED Gold sustainable design certification in August of 2011. Located on the Foothills Campus in Fort Collins, the 60,000-sf RIC facility houses a 7,700-sf animal research vivarium and several BSL-2 labs. The project architect was The FWA Group. The project includes a 54 kilowatt solar array, low-flow toilets, and low-VOC interior finishes. The operating cost of the building is expected to be 42 percent less than a comparable conventional facility.