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Miller Children’s Hospital opened its four-story, 124,000-sf inpatient pavilion in December of 2009 in Long Beach, Calif. The $200 million facility houses a state-of-the-art pediatric imaging center, a seven-suite pediatric surgery center, and a neonatal intensive care unit.

The University of Arizona is planning to construct a $140 million cancer treatment center in Phoenix. The five-story, 250,000-sf facility will be built on the Phoenix biomedical campus. A temporary facility will open at the site in 2010 with the permanent cancer treatment center reaching completion in 2013.

Griffith University opened the $18 million Smart Water Research Centre in late November of 2009 on the Gold Coast campus in Queensland, Australia. The facility will support collaborative research with state water authorities and industry partners to develop technologies and solutions to secure future water supplies. The Smart Water Research Centre houses laboratories, distillation rooms, a resource center, and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.

Covance will begin construction in December of 2009 on a food safety and nutritional chemistry laboratory in Battle Creek, Mich. The $14 million project includes the purchase, renovation, and expansion of an existing 30,000-sf building. Occupancy is expected in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Syracuse University opened the $12.4 million Green Data Center in Syracuse, N.Y., in December of 2009. Created in partnership with IBM and the state of New York, the 12,000-sf facility is comprised of 6,000 sf of infrastructure space and 6,000 sf of raised-floor data center space. The Green Data Center features energy-efficient IBM servers and an on-site power generation system for electricity, heating, and cooling.