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Russell Hall, University of Georgia Health Sciences Campus
Russell Hall, a 1974 two-story, masonry-construction facility, underwent an extensive first-floor renovation with a complete overhaul of its mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to accommodate the medical education classrooms of a new Health Sciences Campus. In its new role, the former Navy Supply Corps School classroom building serves two primary occupants: the University of Georgia's College of Public Health and the Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership.
Monmouth College's Center for Science and Business Designed for Integrated Education
When Monmouth College's Center for Science and Business (CSB) opens in the fall, it will be noteworthy, in part, for its unconventional combination of academic departments. The three-story, 138,000-sf facility integrates classrooms and offices for faculty in not only chemistry, physics, biology, and psychology, but also business, accounting, and mathematics.
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is a pioneering research facility that brings together biologists working to understand the disease at a molecular level and engineering faculty devoted to solving problems related to cancer. The ultimate goal is to accelerate the discovery of cures for cancer.
Johnson County Sheriff's Office Criminalistics Laboratory
Johnson County's new Criminalistics Laboratory houses distinct forensic science labs—biology/DNA, firearms/toolmarks, latent prints, controlled substance, trace analysis, digital/multimedia, and crime scene investigation. Additional space allows for expansion of computer forensics and instrumentation. Other amenities include: wireless capability, expanded crime scene processing and evidence handling areas, separate section evidence storage areas, and a large multipurpose training room.
Addressing Human Challenges in an Animal Facility
The Clara Christie Centre for Mouse Genomics at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, provides a centralized 33,000-sf facility for the production and breeding of transgenic mice, primarily serving researchers in western Canada. The center's design and operations address the needs not only of the research community, but also its animals, researchers, and staff, resulting in lower employee turnover, injuries, and sick days.