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Clear Lake Regional Medical Center will break ground on a $92 million expansion and renovation project in summer of 2010. Designed by Perkins + Will, a four-story, 154,470-sf patient tower will include a 30-bed ICU and surgical suites. In the existing 595-bed facility, 70,940 sf will be renovated, creating additional space for the women’s and children’s services departments. Completion is expected in summer of 2013.

Kemwell is partnering with Boehringer Ingelheim to construct a biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Bangalore, India. Ground was broken on the 15,000-sm greenfield facility in December of 2010. The cGMP plant will support process development, fermentation, purification, and formulation of biologics for early-phase preclinical and clinical studies. The project includes a fill and finish facility and suites for microbial fermentation and the production of protein therapeutics from mammalian cell cultures.

Duke University opened two new facilities at the Duke Lemur Center in December of 2010. The $10.4 million project was designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent and is located in Durham, N.C. The Releasable Building provides dry lab space and housing for 60 lemurs in a free range environment sited on 69 forested acres. The Semi-Releasable Building includes a wet lab for biological and chemical analysis and houses 80 lemurs with limited outdoor access.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison opened the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in December of 2010. The 300,000-sf facility houses research offices, an atrium, and flexible dry, wet, and combination laboratories. Ground was broken on the interdisciplinary biomedical research building in May of 2008. Built with four stories above ground and one below, the project will support collaborative research in biotechnology, health science, nanotechnology, engineering, and stem cell research.

Central Oregon Community College will begin construction in early 2011 on the $18 million Health Career Building in Bend. The 47,000-sf facility will house classrooms and teaching labs for nursing, pharmacy technician, medical assisting, dental assisting, and licensed massage therapy. Occupancy is expected in spring of 2012. The general contractor for the project is HSW Builders of Bend.