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Drawbase and PeopleCube Provide Integrated FM Solution
Drawbase Software has entered a strategic partnership with PeopleCube to provide an integrated resource scheduling and facilities management solution. Drawbase’s workplace and resource management suite will align with PeopleCube’s web-based enterprise scheduling platform, enabling businesses to drive down operating costs, maximize space and resource utilization, and minimize energy consumption. For more information, visit www.Drawbase.com and www.peoplecube.com.
Rice University Plans Brockman Hall for Physics
Rice University will initiate construction in 2009 on the 111,000-sf Brockman Hall for Physics in Houston. Housing vibration- and noise- controlled laboratories, the facility will support research in fundamental and applied physics. The building will be sited adjacent to George R. Brown Hall in the new Science Quadrangle and is slated for completion in December of 2010. Housing advanced instrumentation for precision measurement, the project will consolidate research faculty currently housed in five separate locations.
Universities Seize Opportunity to Recruit Faculty
Many universities are leveraging current economic challenges to recruit highly skilled faculty and researchers. Northeastern University in Boston is engaged in a search for 46 professors in a wide range of disciplines, and Tufts University seeks to fill 52 faculty positions. Other institutions, including Amherst, Holy Cross, and Emerson, have created new teaching jobs.
Scottish Agricultural College Opens Beef Research Center
The Scottish Agricultural College opened a £1.3 million beef research center near Edinburgh in Easter Howgate in February of 2009. Funded in part by the Scottish Government, the 3,000-sm facility can house up to 500 bovines. Designed for flexibility, the building will enable researchers to alter operational layouts to study animal production, genetic improvement, behavior, welfare, and greenhouse gas reduction.
Shovel-Ready Projects Eligible for Economic Stimulus Package Funding
Funding from the proposed $900 billion economic stimulus package, which may be approved in February of 2009, will be awarded to “shovel-ready” construction projects. Municipal and educational institutions will compete for the funding, which would be available for projects with plans and contracts in place that can begin construction within 18 months.