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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has completed construction of the $64 million Research Support Facility in Golden, Colo. The 222,000-sf facility will house 800 employees when it opens in August of 2010. Ground was broken on the project in May of 2009. LEED Platinum sustainable design certification will be sought for the zero-energy office building, which features passive heating and ventilation, daylighting, and recycled materials.

The U.S. Department of Energy will break ground in August of 2010 on the $66.8 million Interdisciplinary Science Building at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, N.Y. The two-story facility will support research on renewable energy and nanomaterials and is supported by $18.6 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. General contractor E.W. Howell of Plainview, N.Y., will begin construction on the facility in September of 2010.

The $52 million Jamestown Regional Medical Center will open in fall of 2011 in Jamestown, N.D. Construction began on the three-story, 130,000-sf facility in September of 2009. The hospital was designed by BWBR Architects of St. Paul and will provide 25 inpatient beds.

Erie County Medical Center will construct a $2.1 million addition to the Center of Excellence for Renal Disease and Transplant in Buffalo, N.Y. The project will expand the 18,000-sf facility to 25,000 sf and will provide 12 additional outpatient dialysis stations. Construction will begin in late 2010. The total project cost of the Center of Excellence for Renal Disease and Transplant is $24 million.

Community Health System of Tennessee broke ground on the $225 million Porter Hospital in July of 2010 in Valparaiso, Ind. The five-story, 420,000-sf facility will provide approximately 240 beds. The site work contractor is Dyer Construction with Robins and Morton of Birmingham, Ala., as general contractor.