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CSL Limited will construct a biopharmaceutical R&D facility in Broadmeadows, Victoria. The $235 million project includes infrastructure improvements to CSL’s existing manufacturing campus to enhance integration with the new building. The R&D facility will support late stage development of treatments for cancer, bleeding disorders, inflammation, and infection.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute will renovate 20,763 nsf in the Cancer Cell Center building in Buffalo, N.Y., to house the Tumor Immunotherapy Program. The project is supported by $4.67 million in federal stimulus funding.

Stony Brook University will construct an ABSL-3 research facility at the Health Sciences Center in Stony Brook, N.Y. Supported by $14.1 million in federal stimulus funding, the 16,140-sf facility will have a small animal suite, an insectary, and an imaging suite with an adjacent room for work with large animals. Accommodating research with select agents, the facility will include Class II biosafety cabinets, a pass-through cold room, cage and rack washers, ventilated animal housing equipment, and a pass-through autoclave.

UC Davis Medical Center opened the $425 million Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion in Sacramento in July of 2010. Construction began on the 472,000-sf facility in November of 2004. Built with three stories above grade and one story below, the pavilion provides an emergency room, a 12-bed burn unit, a surgical intensive care unit, and pathology, radiology, and cardiology services. The project was designed by Gordon H. Chong & Partners of San Francisco.

The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory will construct the Center for Marine Functional Genomic Studies in Salisbury Cove, Maine. The 13,267-sf facility will house multidisciplinary research labs, core facilities, and support space. The building will also provide research space for Maine's IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). The project is supported by $3.8 million in federal stimulus funding.