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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened its expanded Anchorage biosafety laboratory in January of 2011. Doubling existing lab space, the $2.3 million project included renovations of the existing facility to provide additional space for the detection and study of infectious disease agents and bioterrorism threats. The center will include biosafety cabinets with negative airflow and decontamination showers.

Mount Sinai Medical Center is building the Center for Science and Medicine in New York. The 12-story, 500,000-sf facility will provide advanced research, clinical, and imaging facilities. The center will house the Translational Molecular Imaging Institute as well as linear accelerators and infusion suites. Occupancy is expected in 2012. The project construction manager is Bovis Lend Lease.

Abaxis will open the 20,000-sf Veterinary Reference Laboratory in Olathe, Kansas. The lab will be located in the former Osborn Labs facility and will support collaboration with the Kansas State University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and the National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization. The facility will test point-of-care blood analysis instruments as well as providing veterinary diagnostic analysis services.

St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is planning to build a $450,000 million biomedical science teaching facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The project will house a 3,000-sf laboratory, classrooms, and biomedical training suites. The facility will provide instruction in research techniques for molecular biology, microscopy, and cell cultures.

Georgetown University opened the $164.7 million School of Foreign Service in Qatar’s Education City in February of 2011. Designed by Legorreta+Legorreta, the 360,000-sf instructional facility includes a three-story atrium, a 350-seat auditorium, a library with 60,000 volumes, and 14 classrooms and lecture halls. Sustainable design certification will be sought for the project. The duration of construction was 25 months.