University of Maryland Plans CARB Expansion

The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) plans to expand the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) with CARB II at the university's Shady Grove campus. Most of the $38 million, 140,000-sf four-story building will house research labs, including facilities for both plant core transformation and insect transformation. The structure will also accommodate a 5,000-sf UMBI staff office, and a teaching lab for bioprocess engineering. Burt Hill Kosar Rittelman Associates of Pennsylvania is the architect for the project; the construction manager is Barton Mallow. Construction is slated to begin in March 2002, with completion in 2004. The project is a joint venture between UMBI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.