Industry News

Rolls Royce broke ground on its Crosspointe aerospace campus in October of 2009. Sited on over 1,000 acres in Prince George County, Va., the 140,000-sf, $170 million manufacturing facility is slated for completion in late 2010. Designed and built by Haskell, the building will house production, assembly, and testing space for aerospace components.

EMD Serono is engaged in a $65 million expansion of its research campus in Billerica, Mass. The 140,000-sf facility will house laboratories for pharmaceutical research and production, including 25,000-sf of chemistry and screening labs and 25,000-sf of biology and cell culture labs. The building will also house offices, conference rooms, and an auditorium. Construction began on the project in fall of 2008 and completion is expected in late 2010. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.

Woodstock General Hospital is building a 350,000-sf replacement facility in Woodstock, Ontario. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2008 with occupancy stated for summer of 2011. The three-story, 350,000-sf facility will provide 178 beds. Built by general contractor EllisDon, the hospital will feature advanced diagnostic imaging, five surgical suites, a critical care unit, and a women’s and children’s center. LEED certification for sustainable design will be sought for the facility.

BioStorage Technologies, a worldwide provider of biomaterials storage, sample management, and cold chain logistics, will expand its global headquarters in Indianapolis with the construction of a 40,000-sf cold storage facility. The $6.1 million project will comply with U.S. FDA and cGMP standards. Additionally, BioStorage opened a 16,140-sf biorepository in Frankfurt, Germany, in October of 2009.

Bombardier broke ground on the 200,000-sf Mexico Manufacturing Centre in Queretaro in fall of 2009. Slated for completion by March of 2010, the facility will produce composite components for the Learjet 85. The facility is strategically sited to foster collaboration with the adjacent National Aeronautic University of Queretaro, which will open a composite laboratory and offer a composite course to train Bombardier operators.