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Industry News
WakeMed Health Opens Patient Tower
WakeMed Health celebrated the opening of its $99 million patient tower in Raleigh, N.C., in May of 2010. The four-story project provides 41 cardiovascular care rooms, 20 cardiac intensive care beds, and a children’s hospital.
Dow Chemical Builds East China Emulsion Plant
The Dow Chemical Company will begin construction in the fourth quarter of 2010 on a $17 million emulsion plant in Zhangjiagang, China. Supporting Dow’s expansion in the Chinese coatings market, the facility will begin production in late 2011.
InVivos Constructs Research Animal Breeding Facility
InVivos is partnering with Taconic to construct a research animal breeding facility in Singapore. Slated for completion by year-end 2011, the facility will produce up to 600,000 rodents annually at full capacity. InVivos will build the project adjacent to the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Animal Resources in Lim Chu Kang.
Dammam University Builds Teaching Hospital
Dammam University will build a SR500 million teaching hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 11-story building will provide 400 inpatient beds as well as clinical space, classrooms, diagnostic labs, surgical suites, and a helipad. Completion is expected within four years.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Renovates Center for Translational Molecular Imaging
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is initiating a 4,156-sf renovation of the Center for Translational Molecular Imaging in Baltimore. Supported by $7 million in federal stimulus funding, the project will create an imaging suite with a dual modality PET scanner and a reagents manufacturing laboratory. The sustainably designed facility will feature HEPA filtration and is slated for completion by January of 2012.