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Midwestern University is planning to build a five-story medical and dental teaching clinic in Downers Grove, Ill. The 193,000-sf facility will accommodate up to 400 patient visits each day. A six-story, 341,000-sf parking structure will also be constructed. Occupancy is expected in 2014.

Exempla Saint Joseph will break ground in May of 2011 on a $623 million hospital in Denver. The 826,000-sf facility will provide 348 beds. Occupancy is expected in December of 2014.

Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) opened in May of 2011 in Riyadh. Sited on 800 hectares, the campus includes 15 colleges, a 700-bed university hospital, and research centers for nanotechnology, biosciences, and information technology. PNU will officially open in 2012 as the largest women's university in the world.

Stemnion completed construction of two Class 10,000 cleanrooms in May of 2011. Located in Clearwater, Fla., the project is a stand-alone modular facility for the production of regenerative medicine therapies. The cleanrooms were designed and built by HWI Global in collaboration with Turner Construction Company.

The University of Minnesota began construction in May of 2011 on a $200 million cancer and cardiovascular research facility in Minneapolis. The 280,000-sf building is expected to reach completion in spring of 2013. Housing biomedical and genomics research laboratories with advanced instrumentation, the project is part of the second phase of the Biomedical Discovery District. The facility was designed by ZGF Architects of Seattle and Architectural Alliance of Minneapolis.