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Oak Ridge National Laboratory dedicated the $95 million Chemical and Materials Sciences Building in July of 2011. The three-story, 160,000-sf facility houses equipment suites, 56 laboratories, 164 offices, and 91 modular workstations for the development of advanced energy products and technologies. The Chemical and Material Sciences Building houses two DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers, the Center for Fluid Interface Reaction Structure and Transport (FIRST) and the Center for Defect Physics (CDP).

Indiana University Health is building the 270,000-sf Neuroscience Center in Indianapolis. Located on the IU Health Methodist Hospital campus, the six-story outpatient facility will include clinical and research diagnostic imaging, surgical suites, collaboration and education space, and a robotic laboratory. Occupancy is expected in summer of 2012. The outpatient facility is the first phase of IU Health’s $120 million neuroscience complex. An adjacent research facility is expected to open in 2013.

Bosch opened its photovoltaics competence center in July of 2011 in Arnstadt, Germany. The $757 million facility provides R&D and manufacturing space as well as housing the company’s solar energy division headquarters. The duration of construction was two years.

A 340,000-sf patient tower for Baptist Medical Center and Wolfson Children’s Hospital is under construction in Jacksonville, Fla. The 11-story project will provide both adult and pediatric services. The $200 million facility is slated for completion in December of 2012. The project team includes Stanley Beaman & Sears Architects, TLC Engineering, and Batson-Cook Construction.

Francis Marion University opened its 61,000-sf performing arts center in Florence, S.C., in July of 2011. The facility includes an 850-seat auditorium, a 125-seat black box theater, classrooms, and offices for the fine arts department.