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CDV Systems has created a novel workflow process to extend CAD and BIM capabilities. So many facilities have made major commitments to CAD and BIM applications and nearly all have found real successes from pre-design all the way to construction. Yet, following this they are often left with non-standardized CAD projects, losses of data due to conversions, and bloated BIM data files. Valuable data can linger as an underused resource. CDV's process remedies concerns about CAD and BIM data conversion and handling issues.

Rice University dedicated the $44.5 million Brockman Hall for Physics in March of 2011. Construction began on the 111,000-sf facility in fall of 2009. The project was supported by $11 million in stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The four-story building houses advanced laboratories for experimental, theoretical, and applied physics.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks broke ground on the $108.6 million Life Sciences Building on March 30, 2011. The 101,000-sf teaching and research facility will house advanced laboratories, offices, classrooms, and an auditorium. Davis Constructors and Engineers provided design consultation services for the project. Completion is expected in 2014.

Lonza is initiating a $25.7 million expansion of its biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Slough, U.K. Construction will begin in mid-2011 on a 60,000-sf facility housing process development labs, a fermentation suite, purification suites, and a GMP warehouse. Completion is expected in late 2012.

Hewlett-Packard is building a 49,960-sf data center and research facility in Fort Collins, Colo. The 10-megawatt center will use microgrids to power and cool 10,000 servers. Functioning as a living laboratory for sustainable data center development, the project will include 10,000 sensors for energy and temperature monitoring.