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Kaiser Permanente Medical Center will open its $500 million healthcare campus in Vacaville, Calif., in October of 2009. Comprised of a four-story, 340,000-sf hospital and a 217,000-sf medical office building, the 166-bed project features abundant natural light for optimal patient healing and PVC-free rubber flooring. The sustainably-designed medical center includes a 24-hour emergency department, a critical care unit, diagnostic imaging, and surgical suites.

Middlesex University will initiate construction in fall of 2009 on an £80 million art, design, and media building in London. Slated for occupancy in 2011, the 15,460-sm facility will feature specialized instructional spaces, seminar rooms, and studios for art, design, and television.

Construction will begin in October of 2009 on the Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory at Ankara (TARLA). Slated for completion in 2012, the research facility will house an electron linear accelerator and positron storage rings for the advancement of particle physics and interdisciplinary science. Four additional facilities are also planned at the site, including a charm factory, an SASE FEL (self-amplified stimulated-emission free electron laser), a third generation light source, and a proton accelerator.

The University of Kansas is constructing the $45.5 million School of Pharmacy in Lawrence. The 110,000-sf facility is being built by J.E. Dunn Construction Co. and is slated for completion in fall of 2010. The facility will enable the university to enroll 150 new students annually to address the statewide shortage of pharmacists. 

The Institute of Animal Health is planning a £100 million redevelopment of its animal disease research laboratories in Pirbright in the United Kingdom. Supporting research on emerging, existing, and vector-borne infectious diseases in animal and human populations, the project is slated for completion in 2013.