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Southampton University Constructs Nanoscale Cleanroom Facility
The University of Southampton will open the £55 million Mountbatten Building in late 2008 in Southampton, UK. Connecting on all levels to the existing Zepler Building, the interdisciplinary nanotechnology and microelectronics facility will include cleanrooms, research laboratories, and offices. Housing the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences and the Optoelectronics Research Centre, the facility will accommodate the fabrication and characterization of materials with a concentration on the structuring and modifying of materials at the nanoscale.
University of Central Florida Constructs Burnett Biomedical Sciences Building
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is constructing the Burnett Biomedical Sciences building in Orlando. Slated for completion by fall of 2009, the five-story facility will will house the merged UCF College of Medicine and the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences. The project team includes Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge as design architect and HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando as architect of record.
Florida State University Opens Chemical Sciences Laboratory
Florida State University opened the $72 million Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Tallahassee on May 2, 2008. Housing education and research space, the 168,000-sf, five-story building will accommodate approximately 250 researchers. The building has a total of 145 fume hoods and includes core research facilities, a 160-seat lecture hall, flexible laboratories, and synthetic organic chemistry labs. The facility will enable FSU to expand research programs in the molecular sciences.
UW-Madison Begins Construction on Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
The University of Wisconsin-Madison broke ground on the $150 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in Madison on May 2, 2008. The 300,000-sf interdisciplinary biomedical research building will be comprised of four stories above ground and one below, and will house research offices, an atrium, and flexible dry, wet, and combination laboratories. The collaborative public-private research project will accommodate biotechnology, health science, nanotechnology, engineering, and stem cell research.
Labconco Creates New Generation Of Biosafety Cabinets
Labconco’s new Purifier Logic Biosafety Cabinets are a new generation of biosafety cabinets that include an LCD information center located inside the cabinet at eye-level to keep users safe and alerted to current cabinet conditions. Operating parameters are constantly displayed, including the percent of filter capacity remaining. The Purifier Logic Series Cabinets utilize intelligent motor technology to maintain precise, safe airflow as the filters load. The motor is more powerful, yet quieter, cooler and 60% more energy efficient than other cabinets.