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Trinity College Dublin Plans School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Trinity College Dublin will build the $69 million South East Corner Development to house the School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences. The 161,458-sf facility will provide advanced research laboratories and teaching spaces. Healy Kelly Turner & Townsend is the project manager. The sustainably designed facility will be built in phases with initial occupancy in 2014 and final completion expected in 2017.
Texas A&M University Plans Arts and Humanities Building
Texas A&M University has selected Skanska USA to construct the $34 million Arts and Humanities Building in College Station. The 107,000-sf facility will house the Department of English, the Department of Performance Studies, and the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture. The building will provide advanced classrooms, studios, rehearsal rooms, music teaching labs, and offices. Completion is slated for summer of 2012.
Siemens Plans UK Wind Turbine Facility
Siemens will build an offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility in the Port of Hull in the United Kingdom. The construction cost of the production plant is estimated at $130 million.
University of New South Wales Plans Wallace Wurth Building
The University of New South Wales is planning to build the Wallace Wurth Building in Sydney. Accommodating 678 staff and 1300 students, the medical teaching, research, and training facility will house wet and dry labs, classrooms, lecture halls, seminar rooms, and an animal facility.
Idaho National Laboratory Breaks Ground on Energy Systems Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory broke ground on the Energy Systems Laboratory on February 1, 2011. Representing an expansion of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, the facility will house research, teaching, and demonstration facilities for the study of alternative energy systems and technologies.