Industry News

Shriners Hospital for Children will begin construction in late 2010 on a new pediatric hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis. The 247,000-sf facility will provide four surgical suites, 30 examination rooms, and 40 inpatient beds. The project architect is Gresham Smith Partners of Tampa. The construction management team is Paric Corp. of O'Fallon, Mo., and Barton Malow of Detroit.

The University of Arkansas dedicated the 34,000-sf Rice Research and Extension Center (RREC) in Stuttgart in April of 2010. The $12.4 million facility houses research labs, offices, and an auditorium for the university’s Division of Agriculture. The RREC features advanced laboratories for plant genetics, molecular biology, and biofuels research. The project architect was Witsell, Evans and Rasco with May Construction Company as general contractor.

Children’s Hospital Boston selected Payette in April of 2010 to design the 106,000-sf Binney Building. The ten-story urban infill project will be built as an addition to the main hospital. The facility will house much-needed expansion space for the emergency department, radiology, same-day surgery, neurology, pharmacy, and four floors of new inpatient beds.

The University of Missouri Health System is planning to construct a $52 million cancer treatment facility for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia, Mo. The 100,000-sf project will be built adjacent to University Hospital.

Ohio State University broke ground in April of 2010 on a $22.2 million biocontainment laboratory in Wooster. The 27,000-sf Plant and Animal Agrosecurity Research (PAAR) Facility will house BSL-3 and BSL-3Ag laboratories. The facility will include suites for work on larger animals such as cows and pigs. Completion is expected in summer of 2012.