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University of Arkansas Dedicates Hunt Transport Center for Academic Excellence
The University of Arkansas dedicated the $30 million J. B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Center for Academic Excellence in Fayetteville, Ark. in September of 2007. The five story, 110,000-sf facility will accommodate the College of Engineering, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Featuring leading edge technology and efficient, flexible laboratories, the center includes wired and wireless high performance network access.
Ware Malcomb Completes 2300 Empire Center Design
Ware Malcomb’s Los Angeles office has completed the design of the 2300 Empire Center located at 2300 West Empire Boulevard in Burbank, California. Higgins Development Partners, along with equity partner Walton Street Capital, both of Chicago, Illinois, are developing the project. Construction began on August 20, 2007 on the 7-story, steel-framed Class A office building totaling approximately 363,000 sf.
University of Virginia Constructs Advanced Research and Technology Building
The University of Virginia is constructing the 85,000-sf Advanced Research and Technology (ART) building in Charlottesville. Sited in the Fontaine Research Park, the four story facility is comprised of three floors above grade and an underground basement. It will contain wet and dry lab space, a vivarium, two MRI rooms and one small animal MRI room, environmental rooms, office space, and conference areas. The 22-month project is slated for completion in March of 2008.
Murdock Core Lab Nears Completion at North Carolina Research Campus
Construction on the David Murdock Core Lab Building at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis is slated for completion in late 2007. The $200-million, 311,000-sf facility will house approximately $90 million in equipment including a 900 megahertz NMR, an 800 megahertz NMR, and a 700 megahertz NMR. The facility will be managed by Duke University and will include a genomics lab, an imaging facility with electron microscopes, and a GMP manufacturing facility for biologics and small molecules.
AstraZeneca Opens Clinical Research Facility In China
AstraZeneca has partnered with Peking University to open the Clinical Pharmacology Unit (CPU) on Sept. 4, 2007 in Beijing, China. Accommodating research on therapies for infections, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, the facility will accelerate progress from phase one drug development to the subsequent phases of clinical research. AstraZeneca is investing funds for facility upgrades to support clinical research and will provide personnel training, consulting, and system audits to Peking University Third Hospital.