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University of Texas at El Paso Builds Health Science Building
The University of Texas at El Paso is building a $60 million facility for the College of Health Sciences and School of Nursing. The four-story, 130,000-sf building will feature 16,000 sf of clinical simulation laboratories, a 4,500-sf biomedical research facility, classrooms, and seminar rooms. Construction began on the project in November of 2008. Occupancy is expected in fall of 2011.
Baptist Health South Florida Opens West Kendall Hospital
Baptist Health South Florida opened the $210 million West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami in April of 2011. The four-story, 282,000-sf building includes 133 beds, an outpatient diagnostic center, and a neonatal ICU. West Kendall Baptist Hospital was designed as an Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) facility and will be the teaching hospital for Florida International University's medical program. The sustainably designed facility is Category 5 Hurricane resistant and includes a gym that will feed power back into the grid. Construction began on the facility in early 2009.
University of Maine Expands Advanced Structures and Composites Center
The University of Maine is engaged in a $22.4 million expansion of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center in Orono. The 35,000-sf facility includes a 2,500-sf nanocomposites laboratory, offices, classrooms, and the Offshore Wind Laboratory. The wind lab features a reaction wall and floor for structural testing of wind turbine blades as well as an environmental simulation area and a wave-wind basin. A robotic composite manufacturing suite will produce turbine blades on site.
University of Rochester Medical Center Opens Clinical and Translational Science Building
The University of Rochester Medical Center opened the $76.4 million Saunders Research Building in April of 2011 in Rochester, N.Y. The 200,000-sf interdisciplinary facility houses labs, offices, classrooms, and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2008. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.
BioScale Opens Lexington R&D Headquarters
BioScale has relocated its corporate headquarters to a newly renovated 30,000-sf facility in Lexington, Mass. The facility houses BSL-2 labs and a cleanroom for MEMs sensor manufacturing and assembly. BioScale is a life sciences company that provides tools for protein research.