The Jackson Laboratory completed construction of the $6 million Importation/Isolation Facility in Bar Harbor, Maine, in September of 2010. Housing 22,500 sf of laboratory space, the three-story facility was designed by RMW architecture & interiors of Sacramento, Calif., and built by Consigli Construction of Portland, Maine. The MEP engineer was WBRC A/E of Bangor, Maine, with Becker Structural of Portland as structural engineer.
The University of Florida will open its $58 million Small Animal Hospital in Gainesville on November 1, 2010. Featuring expanded treatment and examination areas, the 100,000-sf facility includes a cardiac catheterization laboratory and a linear accelerator. Construction began on the hospital in fall of 2008.
Cornell University opened the $70 million New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center in Ithaca in October of 2010. The three-story, 126,000-gsf facility houses seven BSL-3 labs, BSL-2 labs, a necropsy facility able to accommodate large animals, and diagnostic suites. The center consolidates operations previously dispersed in 12 locations and can accommodate over 200 researchers.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences has selected Skanska to construct a 50,000-sm veterinary and domestic animal center in Uppsala, Sweden. Developed in partnership with Akademiska Hus, the SEK 1.09 billion project will include a veterinary hospital, teaching and research laboratories, and stables. Construction will begin on the sustainably designed facility in October of 2010 with completion expected by spring of 2014.
The University of Guelph will open the $70 million Pathobiology and Animal Health Laboratory in October of 2010. The four-story building houses research, teaching, and animal care facilities for the Ontario Veterinary College. The project was designed by Young + Wright / IBI Group Architects and built by Bird Construction Co. The facility includes a 120-seat lecture hall, a teaching lab, seminar rooms, research laboratories, and offices.
The University of California Davis is planning to construct the 19,124-sf Respiratory Diseases Center. Supported by $14.2 million in federal stimulus funding, the facility will house research laboratories, offices, animal holding, an inhalation exposure facility, and a pulmonary function testing lab.
The Oregon Zoo will begin construction in September of 2010 on a $6.4 million veterinary medical center in Portland. The 15,000-sf clinic will include a quarantine area and species-specific holding spaces. The general contractor for the project is Skanska USA Building. Completion is expected in summer of 2011.
A new Canadian biorefining technology has been adopted by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as a recommended technology for the destruction of all transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and microbiological disease agents. The 175 member countries of the OIE formally approved the technology at the 78th General Session held in Paris in May of 2010 for incorporation into the 2010 Terrestrial Animal Health Code.
Oregon Health and Science University will build two research support facilities at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Portland, Ore. Supported by $4 million in federal stimulus funding, the project includes outdoor group housing for non-human primates and a 2,344-nsf clinic and hospital facility.
The University of Queensland opened the $100 million School of Veterinary Science in Gatton in August of 2010. The teaching and research complex includes the Veterinary Science Building, the UQ Veterinary Medical Centre Pre-Clinical Teaching Laboratories, the Veterinary Clinical Studies Building, and the Equine and Companion Animal Hospitals. The school will accommodate 550 veterinary science students.
AALAS has created a free comparison table for the 1996 vs. the 2010 Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The guide is available online as a download from AALAS. These changes will be explored in detail at a Tradeline pre-conference workshop on November 7, 2010.
Stony Brook University will construct an ABSL-3 research facility at the Health Sciences Center in Stony Brook, N.Y. Supported by $14.1 million in federal stimulus funding, the 16,140-sf facility will have a small animal suite, an insectary, and an imaging suite with an adjacent room for work with large animals. Accommodating research with select agents, the facility will include Class II biosafety cabinets, a pass-through cold room, cage and rack washers, ventilated animal housing equipment, and a pass-through autoclave.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was awarded $15 million in federal stimulus funding in spring of 2010 to create an advanced barrier vivarium in New York. The $20 million project comprises expansion of an existing vivarium by fitting out the cellar and associated interstitial/mechanical space of a contiguous building. Housing 31 small animal holding rooms and 13 procedure labs, the expansion will provide 23,450 individually ventilated mouse cages with the capacity to house approximately 100,000 mice.
New York State Psychiatric Institute is planning to build a satellite animal research facility in New York City. Providing laboratories, surgical suites, and a vivarium, the 3,300-sf project will be constructed in existing shell space in NYSPI’s newest building. The facility is supported by $2.78 million in federal stimulus funding and will house primarily mice and rats in high-density ventilated cages.
Duke University will construct a two-story addition to its Central Vivarium in Durham, N.C., to provide large animal housing and procedure space. The 19,215-gsf (16,762-nsf) project will facilitate consolidation of USDA-covered species in a single vivarium and will enable sharing of advanced equipment. Designed to be fully integrated into Duke’s Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, the facility will house non-human primates, agricultural animals, and canines. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the addition.
