Industry News

Saint Francis Medical Center will open its $84 million Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute in July of 2011. Located in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the 208,000-sf facility will provide advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies in a patient-centered environment. The Heart Hospital houses 60 private acute care rooms, a 10-bed cardiac ICU, six ultrasound rooms, and five cardiac catheterization labs. The Cancer Institute houses physician offices, 35 chemotherapy treatment stations, four private rooms, two linear accelerators, a laboratory, imaging, and surgical suites.

Massachusetts Medical School is building the $405 million Albert Sherman Center in Worcester. Ground was broken on the nine-story, 500,000-sf facility in September of 2009 with completion expected in early 2012. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the project will house advanced biomedical research laboratories, cleanrooms, a 300-seat auditorium, the UMass Gene Therapy Center, and the UMass Center for Stem Cell Biology. LEED Silver sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is expanding its bioprocessing facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with the addition of a 1,000L Xcellerex single-use bioreactor. The project will enable Fujifilm Diosynth to increase its cell culture production capacity. The single-use bioreactor will provide flexibility of scale for the manufacture of therapeutics for preclinical and clinical research. The expansion is expected to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2012.

Loyalist College opened the $16.6 million Sustainable Skills, Technology and Life Sciences Centre in June of 2011 in Belleville, Ontario. The project comprises a 45,000-sf technology and trades training facility and 69,000 sf of new flexible space connected to existing facilities. The sustainably designed center will house the Schools of Architecture and Building Sciences, the School of Biosciences, and the School of Skills Training.

The new Augusta-Richmond County Judicial Center and John H. Ruffin Jr. Courthouse was dedicated on May 18 in Augusta, Ga. Heery International served as Augusta-Richmond County’s Capital Improvements Program Manager for the $62 million, 183,000-sf facility that houses eight courtrooms, nine hearing rooms, grand jury room, judges’ chambers, and offices for the district attorney, solicitor general, and clerk of courts. The four-story structure was designed by Turner Associates.