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Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center Expands in Thousand Oaks
Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center is initiating a $245 million expansion of its hospital campus in Thousand Oaks, Calif. A four-story patient tower providing 60 beds will be built and a fourth floor will be added to an existing building. The project will enable Los Robles to comply with state seismic safety regulations. A new parking structure will also be constructed.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Builds Barrier Vivarium
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was awarded $15 million in federal stimulus funding in spring of 2010 to create an advanced barrier vivarium in New York. The $20 million project comprises expansion of an existing vivarium by fitting out the cellar and associated interstitial/mechanical space of a contiguous building. Housing 31 small animal holding rooms and 13 procedure labs, the expansion will provide 23,450 individually ventilated mouse cages with the capacity to house approximately 100,000 mice.
Temple University School of Medicine Plans Institute for Translational Neuroscience
Temple University School of Medicine is planning to construct the 32,400-sf Institute for Translational Neuroscience in Philadelphia. Providing research laboratories for 31 faculty members, the contiguous research facility will be built in existing shell space on the eighth floor of an existing building. The project is supported by $11.8 million in federal stimulus funding. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.
Sennheiser Completes Production and Technology Center
Sennheiser completed construction of its Production and Technology Center in July of 2010 in Wennebostel, Germany. Accommodating 440 employees, the facility houses laboratories, offices, and space for manufacturing, assembly, and testing. Construction began on the project in November of 2008. Sennheiser is a maker of microphones, RF-wireless and infrared sound transmitters, headphone transducers, and active noise-cancellation products.
New York State Psychiatric Institute Builds Animal Research Facility
New York State Psychiatric Institute is planning to build a satellite animal research facility in New York City. Providing laboratories, surgical suites, and a vivarium, the 3,300-sf project will be constructed in existing shell space in NYSPI’s newest building. The facility is supported by $2.78 million in federal stimulus funding and will house primarily mice and rats in high-density ventilated cages.