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Cornell University Creates Biofuels Lab
Cornell University is engaged in a $6 million renovation to create a biofuels laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y. The project involves the renovation of 11,500-sf of former agricultural engineering, power, and machinery lab space in Riley Robb Hall. Completion is slated for January of 2009. Housing fermenters, incubators, and analytical equipment, the facility will accommodate between 12 to 18 faculty members and 25 graduate students currently dispersed in other campus locations.
Colby College Designs Science Building
Colby College is planning to construct a new 30,000-sf science building in Waterville, Maine. Housing faculty offices, student research space, classrooms, and a computer lab, the facility will support the departments of computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Completion is slated for fall of 2010.
Loyola Completes Hospital Tower
Loyola University Health System completed its 170,000-sf hospital tower in Maywood, Ill., in early spring of 2008. The tower creates a new front entrance to the hospital campus through an atrium with an 18-ft waterfall. Housing 64 private patient rooms, the project features technologies including a pharmacy robot, a privacy-coded patient tracking system, and a $2.7 million 3T MRI.
Monsanto Plans Independence Seed Corn Facility
St. Louis-based Monsanto is planning to construct a seed corn facility on 150 acres near Independence, Iowa. Slated for completion in 2010, the production plant is part of a $230 million expansion of Monsanto’s Iowa operations to support increasing demand for the company’s DeKalb seed corn. Production facilities in Boone and Grinnell are also being expanded, and Monsanto has increased office and laboratory space at its global breeding research campus in Ankeny.
NOAA Constructs Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is constructing the 54,423-sf Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) on 15 acres in Pittsfield Township near Ann Arbor, Mich. The single-story facility, which will double the footprint of the existing Traver Village laboratory, broke ground in fall of 2007 and is slated for completion in late 2008. The GLERL will support research on water levels, invasive species, drinking water, and recreational and commercial opportunities.