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Loma Linda University Medical Center will partner with Physicians Hospital of Murrieta and developer Surgical Development Partners of Nashville to build a $300 million hospital in Murrieta, Calif. The 106-bed facility and two 120,000-sf medical office buildings will be physician owned. Construction is expected to begin in November of 2008 with completion by January of 2011. The hospital will accommodate general, acute care, and specialty services including obstetrics, pediatrics, cardiovascular, and emergency.

The University of Minnesota-Duluth broke ground on the $15 million Civil Engineering Building in July of 2008. The 34,000-sf building will house laboratories and instructional facilities and is slated for occupancy in 2010.

GE Healthcare is constructing a $165 million digital imaging production facility in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, N.Y.  Slated for completion in early 2009, the facility will produce sensors for digital mammography machines in a 60,000-sf cleanroom. LEED Gold certification for sustainable design will be sought for the project, which will feature use of natural light and rooftop solar panels to power the building’s laboratory and office wings. 

Trammell Crow has selected Gilbane Building Company to construct the 871,000-sf Discovery Tower in downtown Houston at an estimated cost of $156 million. Designed by Gensler Architects, the 30-story tower will have 10 wind turbines at the top of the structure that will harvest renewable energy by generating electricity.

The 497,000-sf Smilow Cancer Hospital is slated for completion in 2009 in New Haven, Conn. Providing expanded clinical space for Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale Cancer Center, and Yale School of Medicine, the 14-story integrated facility will house 112 inpatient beds, a women's cancer center, surgical suites, diagnostic imaging, radiology, and outpatient treatment rooms. The Yale Cancer Center is recognized by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center.