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Rowan University is partnering with Cooper University Hospital to construct Cooper Medical School in Camden, N.J. Construction will begin by June of 2010 and reach completion in 2011. The 160,000-sf campus will house classrooms, laboratories, a library, offices, and a vivarium for animal research.

King Abdullah Petroleum Study and Research Center is constructing a 3.8 million-sf mixed-use research complex Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project is expected to attain LEED Platinum sustainable design certification and is slated for completion in 2011. The KAPSARC development will include petroleum research facilities as well as residential, community, and commercial space. HOK is the architect for the project with Syska Hennessy as engineer and Aramco as general contractor.

Murray-Calloway County Hospital opened the $62 million South Tower in March of 2010. Located in Murray, Ky., the five-story, 158,000-sf facility features an emergency room, a helipad, inpatient rooms, imaging and radiology labs, surgical suites, and a critical care unit.

St. Mary’s Medical Center broke ground on the $23 million Cancer Center in San Francisco in March of 2010. The 14,200-sf facility will feature a digital mammography suite. The project is part of $26 million capital improvement plan that will include a new vascular suite in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. 

The University of Connecticut Health Center was awarded $7.9 million in March of 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to renovate the Center for Laboratory Animal Care in Farmington. The project will provide modernized laboratories and care facilities for animal science instruction and research.