Biomedical

The University of Florida dedicated the $90.5 million Biomedical Sciences Building in Gainesville in May of 2010. Supporting translational research, the eight-story, 163,000-sf multidisciplinary facility houses the Health Science Center Colleges, the Biomedical Engineering Department of the College of Engineering, and Animal Care Services. The project team included HuntonBrady Architects as architect of record, Ellenzweig as design architect, and Whiting-Turner Contracting Company as general contractor.

The University of California San Francisco is renovating an existing building to create the 25,000-sf Telemedicine Facility. Enabling students and faculty around the world to participate in actual classroom and training programs, the facility will feature advanced distance learning technologies. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the project. 

Nationwide Children’s Hospital broke ground on the $93 million Research Building III in May of 2010. Located in Columbus, Ohio, the 225,000-sf facility will house the Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, the Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, and the Center for Perinatal Research. Turner Construction is utilizing BIM (Building Information Modeling) to construct the facility. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the project. Completion is expected in 2012.

The University at Buffalo is partnering with National Grid to build a video-linked biomedical engineering center in Buffalo, N.Y. Providing connections to the three UB campuses and state industry partners, the access grid facility will support collaborative research and technology transfer will real-time teleconferencing. The project is supported by $250,000 in funding from National Grid.

The University of Guelph is planning to construct the $18 million Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Guelph, Ontario. Designed by HOK, the facility will house laboratory space for genome sequencing and bar coding. The two-story building will serve as the headquarters for the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL).

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute will construct the Chronic Disease Clinical Research Center in Torrance, Calif. Supported by nearly $10 million in federal stimulus funding, the two-story, 23,171-sf facility will house the Center for Rehabilitative Medicine, the Center for Atherosclerosis Research, and the Investigational Drug Service. The building will also include clinical research space. Construction will begin in August of 2011 with completion expected in fall of 2013.

Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine officially broke ground on its $126 million stem cell research facility in San Diego on March 26, 2010. The 145,000-sf center is expected to open in September of 2011. The four-story facility will provide collaborative research laboratories for Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and U.C. San Diego.

Michigan State University’s College of Nursing will break ground in summer of 2010 on the Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research in East Lansing. Supported by $7.45 million in stimulus funding, the three-story, $17.6 million facility will support collaborative biomedical research and teaching. Occupancy is expected by early 2012.

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School was awarded $15 million by the National Institutes of Health in March of 2010 to support laboratory renovations. The award will enable UMDNJ-NJMS to conduct advanced biomedical research in updated lab facilities.

Med Fusion, a partnership of Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, Pathologists Biomedical Laboratories, and US Oncology, will begin offering integrated translational research services in spring of 2010. The company is headquartered in Dallas and has leased a 172,000-sf facility in Lewisville. Med Fusion will provide integrated pharmaceutical development and clinical trial services.

Princeton University began construction in March of 2010 on the Neuroscience and Psychology Buildings in Princeton, N.J. Designed by José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto of Madrid, the $180 million complex will house the interdisciplinary Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology. The 248,000-gsf project will provide research facilities, faculty offices, conference rooms, and instructional space. A joint-use facility at the lowest level of the neuroscience facility will house advanced imaging and microscopy labs including three fMRI suites.

The National Cancer Institute is building the $250 million Advanced Technology Research Facility in Frederick, Md. Construction began on the project in fall of 2009 with completion expected in 2012. Located in the Riverside Research Park, the 330,000-sf biomedical research building will house laboratories and offices. The National Cancer Institute is managed by the National Institutes of Health.

The University of California-Davis opened a $62-million stem cell research facility in March of 2010 on its medical center campus in Sacramento. Construction of the 90,000-sf facility was supported by $20 million in funding from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. The project included renovation and new construction to create research laboratories and GMP manufacturing space. A total of 54,000 sf is now occupied, with the remainder as shell space for future expansion.

Rutgers University is building the $47 million Center for Integrative Proteomics Technologies on its Busch campus in Piscataway, N.J. Construction began on the 70,000-sf facility in November of 2009 with completion expected in October of 2011. The four-story protein research facility will bring together the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, the Protein Data Bank, and branches of the National Institutes of Health’s Protein Structure Initiative structural genomics project.

Albany Medical Center is planning to expand research laboratories at its medical college in Albany, N.Y. Supported by $9.1 million in stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources and $910,000 from the New York State Innovation Economy Matching Grant Program, the project includes the addition of two floors of research labs (totaling 20,272 nsf) to a three-story building currently under construction.