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Sanofi-aventis Builds Arizona Research Center
Sanofi-aventis initiated construction in fall of 2007 on a $60 million pharmaceutical research center in Oro Valley, Arizona. The 110,000-sf facility is slated for completion in 2009 and will seek LEED certification. The project contractor is Chestnut Construction of Tucson. The building will house approximately 105 researchers engaged in early stage drug development.
National Park Service Opens LEED Certified Research Center
The National Park Service opened the $4.4 million Twin Creeks Science and Education Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in fall of 2007. The 15,000-sf facility houses research for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a project documenting the 800-square-mile Park’s estimated 100,000 species of living organisms. Designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent, the facility is seeking LEED Silver certification for sustainable design.
Bahrain to Develop $1.6bn Health Island
Bahrain will begin construction in 2008 on the $1.6 billion Health Island. Covering 1.25-sm, the project will be built on an island of reclaimed land near Muharraq in the Gulf. Lead by the Ithmaar Development Company, the project will include leading-edge facilities for diagnostics, alternative medicine, nutrition and diabetes, aesthetic surgery, and sports medicine. Completion is expected in three to five years.
UW Madison Completes Institute for Influenza Viral Research
The University of Wisconsin, Madison completed construction on the $12.5-million Institute for Influenza Viral Research in November of 2007. Designed by Flad Architects, the 28,000-sf facility houses BSL-3, BSL-3E, BSL-3Ag, and ABSL-3 laboratories with redundant air handling systems, autoclaves, a back-up generator, and an effluent decontamination system. Located at University Research Park in Madison, the Institute will support research on avian influenza and other flu viruses and will house rodents, ferrets, poultry, and monkeys.
Lincoln University Breaks Ground on High Technology Building
Lincoln University broke ground on a new science and general classroom facility on its Chester County, Philadelphia campus in November of 2007. Designed by Philadelphia-based KlingStubbins, Lincoln University’s High Technology Building is the most recent physical enhancement to America’s first historically black university. The new 113,000-gsf facility is the first element within a new quadrangle south of the main campus and is sited to define the eastern boundary of Lincoln’s planned academic development.