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The University of California Riverside celebrated the opening of the Stem Cell Core Facility (SCCF) in February of 2010. Located in Noel Keen Hall, the 2,000-sf facility features a Nikon BioStation CT incubator and advanced microscopy instrumentation. The project was funded by $2.8 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s $28 million Science and Technology Building is slated for completion in October of 2010. The 41,560-sf facility will house classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and research space for the departments of physics, astronomy, and chemistry.
The University of Colorado is building the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building in Boulder. Ground was broken on the interdisciplinary project in September of 2009 with completion expected in fall of 2011. The cost of the first phase of construction is $145 million. The 257,000-sf research and teaching facility will house the department of chemical and biological engineering, the biochemistry division of the department of chemistry and biochemistry, and the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB).
The Exploration Sciences Building at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was awarded LEED Gold sustainable design certification in February of 2010. The 200,000-sf facility is located in Greenbelt, Md., and houses nearly 60 laboratories. The project team included architectural firm EwingCole of Philadelphia and Manhattan Construction Company of Washington, D.C. Construction began in June of 2007 and was completed in 29 months.
West Virginia University broke ground on a $33 million renovation of White Hall in Morgantown in February of 2010. Creating a rooftop planetarium, two 175-seat technology-rich classrooms, and laboratories for teaching and research, the completed project will house the relocated Department of Physics. Demolition began in early 2010 with occupancy expected in fall of 2011.
