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3M Sites Aviation Manufacturing Facility in Poland
3M has selected PM Group of Dublin, Ireland, to provide design and engineering services for a manufacturing facility in Wroclaw, Poland. Slated for completion by June of 2009, the greenfield project will produce aviation and aerospace adhesives and protective foils.
North Carolina State University Opens MIST Laboratory
North Carolina State University opened the Man-in-Simulant Test (MIST) laboratory in Raleigh in mid-2008. Located in NC State's College of Textiles, the facility will allow researchers to evaluate the capabilities of protective garments against non-toxic vapors that resemble chemical and biological agents. The laboratory is the only one of its kind located at a university in the United States and was funded by a two-year, $2 million grant from the Department of Defense.
Rush University Medical Center Constructs Sustainable Hospital
Rush University Medical Center is constructing a 300-bed, $575 million hospital in Chicago. Designed by Perkins+Will, the facility began construction in fall of 2008 and is slated for occupancy in 2012. LEED Gold certification for sustainable design will be sought for the new teaching hospital, which will feature energy efficient building systems and a green roof. The 14-story building will have a butterfly shape that expands outward at higher stories from a smaller rectangular base.
Harvard Builds Dubai Medical Simulation Center
Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC) will open the Medical Simulation Center in Dubai in the first quarter of 2009. The 20,461-sf facility will provide a simulation environment for healthcare training in a facility housing an auditorium, teaching spaces, and a library. Including simulation operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and ward rooms, the center will feature 6,000-sf for emergency medicine training.
University of Michigan Plans Law School and Data Center
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is engaged in a $102-million expansion of its law school. The project consists of the construction of a new 100,000-sf academic building and the expansion and renovation of existing facilities. Completion is expected in 2012. Additionally, the University will construct a 47,000-sf data center to support its health system operations. The $50.9 million facility is slated for completion in 2010. Both projects broke ground in mid-2008.