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Dell has implemented strategies to reduce energy consumption that will result in $5.8 million in annual savings. By year-end 2009, the company will have cut global energy consumption by 48 million kilowatt hours per year.

Cord Blood America began building a 17,000-sf laboratory in Las Vegas in August of 2009. The facility will provide stem cell storage, processing, testing, and cryogenic storage when it opens by year-end 2009. A second construction phase will include expanded cryogenic facilities and a research laboratory.

The University of California, Berkeley is planning to construct the $112.9 million Computational Research and Theory Facility. The 126,300-gsf project will house the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center. Providing 73,000-asf, the facility will house a 32,000-sf high performance computing floor and offices for NERSC and university researchers.

Lockheed Martin broke ground on a $24 million expansion of its Newton, Pa., campus in August of 2009. A 17,000-sf addition to the Product Team Building will house expanded manufacturing operations for satellites. The second project, a 15,000-sf conference facility, will accommodate up to 250 people. Both facilities will be built to attain LEED sustainable design certification. The Newton campus is the headquarters of Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS).

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., was awarded $60 million in funding in August of 2009 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. $52.7 million will support research and development of advanced particle accelerator technologies and $7.5 million will support collaborative neutrino research with Brookhaven National Lab. The award is the second round of stimulus funding the lab has received, as $34.9 million was awarded to Fermilab in March of 2009.