Industry News

Kansas State University will initiate construction in late 2010 on the O. H. Kruse Feed Mill & BioRefinery in Manhattan. Housing the Feed Science and Management (FSM) program and the Departments of Grain Science and Animal Sciences, the building will support the College of Agriculture with a dedicated BSL-2 teaching and research feed mill. The preliminary design consultant for the project is Younglove Construction of Sioux City, Iowa. The facility will include a biorefinery.

Geisinger Medical Center will open the $100 million Hospital for Advanced Medicine in February of 2010 in Danville, Pa. The 308,000-sf facility houses the Heart and Vascular Institute and includes a 32,000-sf surgical suite with four operating rooms, two inpatient nursing units, and physician offices. Ground was broken on the nine-story hospital in June of 2007. The facility was designed by Ewing Cole and built by Torcon Inc. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the project.

Indiana University Bloomington opened three new teaching laboratories in Jordan Hall in January of 2010. Comprised of 5,300 sf on two floors, the life science labs include biosafety cabinets, incubation and cell growth facilities, ultralow freezers, water baths, and centrifuges. The $2 million project was designed by the University Architects Office and Indianapolis-based arcDESIGN.

Calhoun Community College is constructing the Robotics Technology Park in Decatur, Ala. The first phase of the project is comprised of a $17.6 million, 52,000-sf research and training facility. The second phase of construction will create the $8 million Advanced Technology Research and Development Center, which will include a testing facility for industry partners. The third phase will add the $6 million, 25,000-sf Integration and Entrepreneurial Center. 

Pfizer Animal Health dedicated Building 304 in Richland Township, Mich., in January of 2010. The $4.25 million facility will house cattle utilized in vaccine research and pharmaceutical development. Construction began on the 17,300-sf building in September of 2009.