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Genzyme is expanding its research facilities in Cambridge in the United Kingdom with the construction of a 10,000-sf addition atop its existing 8,000-sf Europe Research Facility. Doubling laboratory and office space, the project will expand pharmaceutical R&D capabilities as well as providing space for clinical trials.

The $36 million Disney Family Cancer Center opened in February of 2010 in Burbank, Calif. The outpatient facility provides cancer diagnosis and treatment, an integrative medicine unit, a pharmacy, a resource library, and research space. The four-story comprehensive cancer center also houses a chemotherapy infusion suite, a radiation oncology unit, and medical offices.

Thermo Fisher Scientific opened its new research and manufacturing facility in February of 2010 in Runcorn in the United Kingdom. The building is designated as a Center of Excellence for Thermo Fisher’s Anatomical Pathology operations and will house production and R&D space for cancer diagnostics and chromatography technologies.

Valparaiso University will begin construction in March of 2010 on the $13 million Donald V. Fites Engineering Innovation Center in Valparaiso, Ind. The 13,500-sf facility will connect to the existing Gellerson Center and is slated for occupancy in fall of 2011.

REpower has completed construction of a test wind farm in Gaspé, Quebec. Created in partnership with Renewable Energy Systems Canada, the Site Nordique Experimental en EolienCORUS (SNEEC) features two 2.05 megawatt cold climate turbines specially designed for the Canadian 60-hertz network. The wind farm will support research, development, and testing of turbines that can function in extreme temperature conditions. The developer and owner of the project is the Wind Energy TechnoCentre.