Industry News

Portneuf Medical Center is building a $220 million hospital in Pocatello, Idaho. Slated for completion in summer of 2010, the 385,000-sf facility will feature an emergency room with trauma suites, 15 operating rooms, a helipad, and private inpatient rooms. The general contractor for the project is Layton Construction.

The University of Minnesota is building the $72.5 million Science Teaching and Student Services building in Minneapolis. The facility was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and is slated for occupancy in September of 2010. Construction began on the project in early 2009. The building features 10 active learning classrooms to support a progressive pedagogy for small groups. The facility will also house 17 multipurpose classrooms and two lecture halls. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the project.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded nearly $15 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to renovate laboratories at its main campus in Baltimore. The project will created updated labs in the 45-year old Hume Wing. Construction will begin in late summer of 2011.

The Royal College of Surgeons is planning to construct a new campus in Dublin. Located on the former site of Belcamp College, the project would include a 39,000-sm medical school and a six-story, 64,000-sm hospital with 320 inpatient beds. Consolidating clinical training, research, and patient care, the campus may also include a 90-bed nursing home, a hotel, and a business incubator.

Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories initiated a $4.2 million expansion and renovation of its research facilities in Columbia, Mo., in early spring of 2010. The project will provide laboratories for the company's chemical division. Completion is expected in June of 2010. The general contractor for the project is ARCO Construction of St. Louis.