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Purdue University Plans Health and Human Sciences Research Facility
Purdue University has selected BSA Life Structures of Indianapolis to design the $53.7 million Health and Human Sciences Research Facility. Located in West Lafayette, Ind., the building will house the Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette, the Lyles-Porter Hall of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and clinical space. Construction will begin in spring of 2011 with completion expected in fall of 2012.
Swinburne University Partners With Suntech on Advanced Solar Facility
Swinburne University of Technology is partnering with Suntech Power Holdings to create the Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility (VSASF) in Melbourne. The project will support the commercialization of nanoplasmonic solar cell technology.
Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies Builds Center for Preclinical Studies
The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies is planning to construct the R1.6 billion Russia Preclinical Nanotoxicology Research Center in Dubna. Offering GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) pharmaceutical testing services, the 10,000-sm facility will support collaborative research with Moscow State University and The Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) of New Mexico. The project architect is HDR.
NRC Releases Updated Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
The National Research Council released an updated edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals on June 2, 2010.
GlobalFoundries Expands Fab 8
GlobalFoundries will begin construction in June of 2010 on a 90,000-sf expansion of Chip Fab 8. Providing additional cleanroom space, the $75 million project represents an expansion of GlobalFoundries' semiconductor manufacturing center currently under construction at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta, N.Y. Completion is expected in mid-2012. The project will bring the total cleanroom footprint at the Malta fab to 300,000 sf.