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Carleton University Opens Academic Health Science Building
Carleton University opened the CAD$52 million Academic Health Science Building in January of 2018 in Ottawa. Designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects and NXL Architects, the seven-story, 120,000-sf facility provides undergraduate teaching labs, research labs, lecture halls, offices, and study spaces to support neuroscience and health science programs. The project includes two floors of shell space to allow for future growth, as well as an animal research vivarium on the seventh floor that will open later in 2018.
Prism Capital Partners Creates ON3 Campus
Prism Capital Partners is engaged in the redevelopment of the former Hoffmann-La Roche site in New Jersey to create the ON3 campus. Providing integrated research, office, and recreational facilities, the mixed-use campus currently houses a 73,000-sf laboratory building partially leased by biofabrication firm Modern Meadow, with plans for the construction of an adjacent pilot manufacturing plant under way.
Keck Medicine of USC Opens Norris Healthcare Center
Keck Medicine of USC opened the Norris Healthcare Center in January of 2018 in Los Angeles. Located on USC's Health Sciences Campus adjacent to the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the seven-story, 116,000-sf outpatient facility features a patient-centric design for the integrated delivery of multidisciplinary ambulatory care. All women’s specialty care services have been grouped together on a single floor, and urology and urologic oncology are collocated on another level of the building.
UTHealth Plans Continuum of Care Campus for Behavioral Health
UTHealth will break ground in early 2019 on the $125 million Continuum of Care Campus for Behavioral Health in Houston. Designed to deliver a transformative model of psychiatric care, the 200,000-sf project will provide approximately 300 beds for acute, subacute, and residential patients. Completion is expected in fall of 2021. UTHealth is also known as the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Wuhan Institute of Virology Begins BSL-4 Laboratory Operations
The Wuhan Institute of Virology began operations in its BSL-4 laboratories in January of 2018. Supporting research on infectious diseases and select agents, the biocontainment facility will enable scientists to develop innovative strategies for the detection and mitigation of pathogenic threats. Construction began on the facility in 2011 with trial operations beginning in 2015.