Higher Education

The Center for Urban Waters opened in Tacoma, Wash., in April of 2010. The $38 million facility will support environmental science research for the University of Washington and Washington State University Puyallup as well as state and local agencies. The 51,000-sf building was designed by Perkins+Will with Turner Construction as general contractor. LEED Platinum sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility. Ground was broken on the three-story project in April of 2009.

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 Warwick will build the £17 million Physics and Chemistry Research Laboratory in Coventry in the United Kingdom. Slated for completion in autumn of 2011, the 4,795-sm facility will feature an advanced microscopy suite and the Warwick Centre for Analytical Science. BAM Construction of Balsall Common will design and construct the building.

The University of Notre Dame completed construction on the $70 million Stinson-Remick Hall in January of 2010. The 142,000-sf facility is located in Notre Dame, Ind., and houses a nanotechnology research center, an energy center, an 11,800-sf semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom, and an undergraduate learning center. Research Facilities Design (RFD) of San Diego provided laboratory programming and design services for the facility. The project architect was BSA LifeStructures of Indianapolis, Ind.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine will begin construction in late spring of 2010 on the $187 million Health Sciences Education Building. Located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the 268,000-sf facility will be created in partnership with Arizona State University’s College of Nursing.

Rowan University is partnering with Cooper University Hospital to construct Cooper Medical School in Camden, N.J. Construction will begin by June of 2010 and reach completion in 2011. The 160,000-sf campus will house classrooms, laboratories, a library, offices, and a vivarium for animal research.

The University of Connecticut Health Center was awarded $7.9 million in March of 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to renovate the Center for Laboratory Animal Care in Farmington. The project will provide modernized laboratories and care facilities for animal science instruction and research.

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.

Aurora College broke ground in March of 2010 on the $11 million Western Arctic Research Institute in Inuvik, Canada. Located in the Northwest Territories two degrees above the Arctic Circle, the sustainably-designed facility will house three flexible laboratories that can be adapted into classrooms, conference rooms, space for visiting researchers, and a workshop. Completion is expected in March of 2011.

Pennsylvania State University was awarded $14.8 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to construct a biocontainment laboratory in University Park. The 20,000-sf laboratory will support research on infectious diseases and pathogens. Construction will begin in early 2011 and reach completion within two years.

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.

The College of the Holy Cross celebrated the opening of the $63 million Integrated Science Complex in March of 2010. Located in Worcester, Mass., the four-story facility provides 142,000 gsf of new and renovated classroom, lecture, research, and laboratory space. Designed to foster interaction and collaboration, the interdisciplinary complex includes an atrium, conference rooms, and shared equipment suites. The Integrated Science Complex is comprised of the Park B. and Linda Smith Laboratories and the renovated Haberlin Hall.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will begin construction in fall of 2010 on an expansion of its genomics data center. Doubling the size of the existing 16,000-sf facility, the completed 32,000-sf building will house advanced sequencing and bioinformatics technologies. The project is supported by $14.3 million in stimulus funding from the National Center for Research Resources.