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Southern Methodist University (SMU) has selected e-Builder Enterprise as their university-wide capital project management platform. e-Builder will provide SMU with a way to reduce cost and schedule risk across their entire capital program and streamline existing processes to increase efficiency.

Novartis Animal Health Canada is initiating a $2.8 million expansion of its animal research facility in Victoria on Prince Edward Island. The project will support the creation of vaccines for salmon to prevent disease and control sea lice. The construction of new laboratories will reach completion in 2011 with additional office space to be built in 2012.

Montana State University dedicated the Eastern Agricultural Research Center and Extension building in Sidney in July of 2011. Ground was broken on the $3.2 million facility in July of 2010. The building houses three research labs, two greenhouses, offices, and a 150-seat conference room. The general contractor for the 12,000-sf project was Fisher Construction. The facility will support crop science and agribusiness research and education.

Saint Mary Mercy Hospital is building the $89 million South Pavilion in Livonia, Mich. The three-story, 154,000-sf project will house inpatient rooms, graduate medical education classrooms, a behavioral medicine treatment suite, imaging, a conference room, and a 45,000-sf emergency department with 55 treatment rooms. Occupancy is expected in October of 2012. The South Pavilion was designed by Hobbs + Black Architects and is being built by Granger Construction Company.

Louisiana State University completed the $10.17 million Multipurpose Academic Center in Alexandria in August of 2011. The 70,000-sf facility provides 58 faculty offices, 17 technology-rich classrooms, a conference room, two computer labs, art and music studios, a 175-seat theater, and four departmental office suites.