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Loughborough University opened the £8 million Clyde Williams building in May of 2009. Housing the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS), the facility features 27 laboratories, a large lecture hall, four teaching rooms, and two climatic chambers. The project was designed by David Morley Architects and built by GB-Building Solutions.

Medtronic will open the 150,000-sf Diabetes Therapy Management and Education Center in San Antonio in late summer of 2009. Medtronic will hire approximately 1,400 employees during a five-year period to staff the new facility. The LEED Silver certified building will enable the medical technology company to expand its diabetes products research and manufacturing operations.

Globalfoundries, a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices, will break ground in summer of 2009 on a $4.5 billion chip manufacturing plant in Malta, N.Y. The 1.3 million-sf Fab4X will be located on 223 acres in the Luther Forest Technology Park and is expected to begin production in 2012. The project will include 300,000-sf of cleanroom facilities and will employ over 1,400 people.

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is partnering with Banner Health to build a cancer hospital and outpatient treatment center in Gilbert, Ariz. The $90 million M.D. Anderson Banner Cancer Center will provide comprehensive cancer services including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and clinical care. Designed to support Banner’s clinical trials research, the center will include 76 inpatient beds and a 120,000-sf outpatient center. Occupancy is expected in late 2011.

Siemens Energy will begin construction in August of 2009 on a 300,000-sf nacelle production facility in Hutchinson, Kansas. The wind turbine manufacturing facility will be accompanied by an 80,000-sf service and repair building. The project is sited on over 100 acres and will house 400 employees. Production will begin in late 2010.