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St. Lawrence University Completes Johnson Hall of Science
St. Lawrence University completed the 120,000-sf Johnson Hall of Science in Boston in fall of 2007. The sustainable laboratory facility was designed by KlingStubbins in association with Croxton Collaborative. Responding to an increased focus on research in the St. Lawrence science curriculum, the design produced a state-of-the-art, fully modernized building for biology, chemistry, physics, geology, math and computer sciences, environmental science, and psychology.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Dedicates Chili's Care Center
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital dedicated the $134 million Chili's Care Center in Memphis in November of 2007. The seven-story, 340,000-sf facility houses an MRI and the only cyclotron dedicated to childhood cancer research. The facility features expanded programs for diagnostic imaging and bone marrow transplants; research laboratories; the department of radiation oncology; and the brain tumor program. The fourth floor of the building is unoccupied to accommodate future growth. Complete occupancy is slated for spring of 2008.
University of Tennessee Receives RBL Equipment Funding
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) was awarded $4 million in federal funds in November of 2007 to acquire equipment for its Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) in Memphis. As part of the Department of Defense's 2008 budget, the funding will provide sophisticated pathogen detection equipment for the study of emerging infectious diseases. Completion of the UTHSC RBL at the UT-Baptist Research Park is slated for summer of 2008.
Syracuse University Constructs Life Sciences Complex
Syracuse University is constructing the 230,000-sf Life Sciences Complex in Syracuse, N.Y. The project broke ground in April 2006 and is slated to reach completion in fall of 2008. Housing the departments of biology, chemistry, and biochemistry, the $107 million facility is the University's largest, most ambitious construction project to date. The five-story building is designed to foster interactive and interdisciplinary research, instruction, and training with a particular emphasis on cell signaling, biocomplexity, and environmental systems.
Schering-Plough Expands New Jersey Campus
Schering-Plough has selected Skanska as the construction manager for a $60 million expansion of its Research Institute campus in Summit, N.J. The 200,000-sf expansion includes construction of a three story facility housing laboratories and warehouse space for drug development and production. The first phase of the project, a 1,350-space parking garage, was completed by Skanska in July of 2007. The facility will accommodate up to 3,000 workers upon completion in 2009.