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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Plans Expansion
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has selected HGA as executive architect and Kohn Pederson Fox as design architect for the second phase of expansion at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. The project will include the addition of two four-story inpatient towers to the existing Stanford Hospital & Clinics campus. Construction will begin in 2010 with completion expected in 2014.
Monsanto Breaks Ground on Learning Center
Monsanto broke ground on its $6 million Learning Center in Gothenburg, Neb., in July of 2008. The 25,000-sf facility will support agricultural implementation of Monsanto’s grain hybrids. The project includes expansion of the company’s existing Gothenburg research facility and the creation of test plots. Completion is slated for April of 2009.
Wake Forest University Plans GMP Tissue Manufacturing Facility
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will construct a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) tissue laboratory for the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. Located in the Richard Dean Biomedical Research Building in Piedmont Triad Research Park, the facility will support the creation of tissues and engineered organs for the rehabilitation of soldiers. The facility is created in partnership with the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a multi-institutional consortium of research centers.
UC San Diego Medical Center Designs Inpatient Tower
UC San Diego Medical Center has selected Cannon Design as project architect for a new inpatient tower on its East Campus in La Jolla, Calif. The facility will break ground in 2012 with completion slated for 2015. The project, which will bring total bed count at the La Jolla hospital to 505, is part of a long term plan to build a major University Medical Center on the East Campus. Proximity to the School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will promote clinical innovation through translational research.
University of Baltimore Plans School of Law
The University of Baltimore is planning to construct a new $107 million School of Law facility in Baltimore, Md. Slated for completion in August of 2012, the 190,000-sf project will enter the design phase by year-end 2008. The facility is part of the planned Fitzgerald at UB Midtown development which will house 240 apartments, street-level retail, and a 1,100-sf parking garage. The facility is being designed by Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart in partnership with Ayers/Saint/Gross of Baltimore. The University of Baltimore is part of the University System of Maryland.