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The University of California, San Diego has selected  Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects to design a new biomedical research facility on the Health Sciences campus in La Jolla. The project will include approximately 150,000-sf of wet-bench laboratories, laboratory support, laboratory core facilities, and office/conference space to accommodate biomedical research programs at UCSD’s School of Medicine, including a new multi-department program in genomic medicine and expanded department of neurosciences.

D'Youville College will initiate construction in May of 2008 on a $20 million academic center on its West Side campus in Buffalo, N.Y. Designed by Cannon Design, the 93,000-sf, six-story facility will house classrooms, laboratories, faculty and administrative offices, conference rooms, and space for a pharmacy program. The project manager is Savarino Cos. of Buffalo.

Cookeville Regional Medical Center is constructing an $80 million, 228,000-sf patient tower in Cookeville, Tenn. The six-story north tower is slated for completion in October of 2008 with a grand opening slated for early 2009. The project began construction in fall of 2006. The project includes a two-story atrium lobby and two entrances. The second floor will house a cancer center featuring a TomoTherapy unit, a new technology for radiation treatment of cancerous tumors.

The University of Kansas Medical Center has received a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce to create a life sciences incubator. The $6.25 million project includes renovation of the on-campus Breidenthal building to create a 40,000-sf facility housing laboratories, offices, commons, telecommunications, and a 6,000-sf wet lab. The incubator will support 10 companies.

Esco has launched the new range of Airstream Horizontal and Vertical Laminar Flow Cabinets (AHC-_D_, AVC-_D_ models) with the Sentinel Delta(TM) Microprocessor Control. Laminar flow cabinets must operate within a specific airflow envelope in order to provide optimum product and cross contamination protection. Contamination can result in experimental failures, leading to loss of productivity. For decades, conventional cabinets have used pressure gauges to monitor the pressure drop across the HEPA/ULPA filter, as a means of monitoring operating status.