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The National Institutes of Health will occupy the new completed Biomedical Research Center in Baltimore in August of 2008. The 500,000-sf laboratory building will accommodate biomedical research on conditions including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, aging, diabetes, and addiction. The $278 million facility has been undergoing vibration testing and mitigation since its completion in late 2006.

HDR Architecture and CUH2A announced their intent to merge to create a comprehensive science and technology (S+T) design firm in early June of 2008. Bridging physical science, life science, and healthcare, the combined company will serve academic, government, and corporate clients with nearly 1,700 staff in over 40 offices worldwide.

Colorado State University’s $30 million Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory received select agent research approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May of 2008. Sited on the Foothills Campus in Fort Collins, the 38,000-sf facility houses BSL-3 laboratories for infectious disease research. The laboratory features a $600,000 mass spectrometer, autoclaves, seven-layer epoxy floors, and rigorous HEPA air filtration.

The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) is planning to construct the $105-million, 180,000-sf Neuroscience Research Building. Housing laboratory and clinical space for 78 principal investigators, the facility will built at the University’s Mission Bay campus.

The Bosch Group is building a €550 million fab for 200 millimeter semiconductors in Reutlingen, Germany. The facility began construction in fall of 2007 with production commencing in mid-2009. The plant will be able to produce 1,000 silicon wafers per day and will support Bosch’s automotive electronics business operations, including MEMS and micromachined chip technologies.