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Bay Medical Center opened its $70 million patient tower in September of 2010 in Panama City, Fla. The five-story facility provides 144 private patient rooms. The general contractor for the project was HOAR Construction.

The University of Guelph will open the $70 million Pathobiology and Animal Health Laboratory in October of 2010. The four-story building houses research, teaching, and animal care facilities for the Ontario Veterinary College. The project was designed by Young + Wright / IBI Group Architects and built by Bird Construction Co. The facility includes a 120-seat lecture hall, a teaching lab, seminar rooms, research laboratories, and offices.

The University of California Davis is planning to construct the 19,124-sf Respiratory Diseases Center. Supported by $14.2 million in federal stimulus funding, the facility will house research laboratories, offices, animal holding, an inhalation exposure facility, and a pulmonary function testing lab.

Ferrosan completed installation of a modular cleanroom in September of 2010. The 325-sm facility was pre-manufactured as a whole in the United Kingdom and shipped to Søborg in Denmark with final hook-up, commissioning, and validation completed on site. The cleanroom was manufactured and installed by Clean Modules. A module housing the air handling unit was pre-commissioned and connected on site.

Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre will open its new translational research laboratory in October of 2010. The $15.8 million facility is located on the expanded third floor of the Cancer Centre and includes drug development and testing suites for advanced biomedical therapies. The project is supported by $9.5 million in federal funding.