Industry News

MGS Manufacturing Group began building a Class 100,000 cleanroom in March of 2010 in Germantown, Wis. The $1.3 million injection molding facility is slated for completion by mid-2010. The 6,250-sf facility is sited in an existing 186,000-sf building.

Med Fusion, a partnership of Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, Pathologists Biomedical Laboratories, and US Oncology, will begin offering integrated translational research services in spring of 2010. The company is headquartered in Dallas and has leased a 172,000-sf facility in Lewisville. Med Fusion will provide integrated pharmaceutical development and clinical trial services.

Mid-Western Regional Hospital will begin construction in August of 2010 on the €35 million Critical Care Unit in Dooradoyle in the Republic of Ireland. The facility will be designed and built by John Sisk & Son. The six-story Critical Care Unit will provide of a 12-bed ICU, a 16-bed coronary care facility, a cardiac catheterization lab, emergency care, diagnostics, and acute surgery facilities. Each floor will have a footprint of approximately 1450 sm. Completion is expected by the end of 2011.

The University of Notre Dame completed construction on the $70 million Stinson-Remick Hall in January of 2010. The 142,000-sf facility is located in Notre Dame, Ind., and houses a nanotechnology research center, an energy center, an 11,800-sf semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom, and an undergraduate learning center. Research Facilities Design (RFD) of San Diego provided laboratory programming and design services for the facility. The project architect was BSA LifeStructures of Indianapolis, Ind.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine will begin construction in late spring of 2010 on the $187 million Health Sciences Education Building. Located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the 268,000-sf facility will be created in partnership with Arizona State University’s College of Nursing.