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Max Planck Breaks Ground on Jupiter Research Facility
The Max Planck Society broke ground in June of 2010 on a 100,000-sf bioimaging research facility in Jupiter, Fla. The project is located on six acres at the MacArthur campus of Florida Atlantic University. The project team includes Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, associate architect PGAL, laboratory design consultant Research Facilities Design (RFD), and BR+A Consulting Engineers.
Washington State University Breaks Ground on School for Global Animal Health
Washington State University broke ground on the $35 million School for Global Animal Health on June 25, 2010. The 62,000-sf facility is sited adjacent to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Pullman. Housing research laboratories for the study of zoonotic diseases, emerging pathogen detection, and vaccine development, the three-story project is slated for completion in spring of 2012. The project team includes Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects and Bouten Construction Company.
Ascension Health Completes Middle Tennessee Medical Center
Ascension Health completed construction in June of 2010 on the $267 million Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. The 561,000-sf replacement hospital provides 10 operating rooms, 11 labor and delivery suites, an intensive care unit, emergency, and diagnostic imaging facilities. Occupancy is expected in October of 2010. The 286-bed facility was built by Turner Construction.
Interim Central Reference Laboratory Opens BSL-3 Facility
The Interim Central Reference Laboratory opened its BSL-3 facility in Odessa, Ukraine, in June of 2010. Created in alliance with the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the biocontainment facility will enable scientists to secure and eliminate weapons of mass destruction in former Soviet states. The Interim Central Reference Laboratory will also support research on infectious diseases and pathogens. Other BSL-3 facilities are under construction in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Opens Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham opened the 50,000-sf Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Center in June of 2010. The patient-centered facility offers advanced radiation treatment and radiosurgery, and houses evaluation rooms, linear accelerators, and an imaging suite with a 16-slice CT scanner.