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Gaston College Constructs Science and Technology Center
Gaston College broke ground on a $3.2 million classroom, laboratory, and office facility in July of 2007. The 14,000-sf Jerry W. Cochrane Science and Technology Center will house two science laboratories for general biology, chemistry, and microbiology. The project will begin actual construction in August of 2007 with completion slated for May of 2008.
NASA Breaks Ground on Exploration Sciences Building
NASA broke ground on July 16, 2007 on the Exploration Sciences Building in Greenbelt, Md. Located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, the three-story environmentally friendly office and laboratory building was designed by EwingCole, an architecture and engineering firm with offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. M+W Zander provided laboratory planning consultation. Providing state of the art labs and technologies, the facility will accommodate research in space and earth science.
Centre for Phenogenomics Opens in Toronto
The Centre for Phenogenomics completed its $50-million facility in the Lebovic Research Centre in Toronto in mid-2007. The 120,000-sf, 180,000-mouse facility houses research laboratories for the study of physiological phenotyping, generation of mutant mice, behavioral analysis, imaging, pathology, and cryopreservation. The project team included engineering firms LKM and SNC-Lavalin Engineering & Technology.
Mercy Medical Center Plans Inpatient Tower
Mercy Medical Center is planning to construct a $400 million inpatient tower complex in downtown Baltimore. The 18-story, 672,000-sf tower is scheduled to break ground in spring of 2008 with completion by fall 2010. Accommodating 32 beds in private rooms per floor; the tower will also house 15 state-of-the-art operating rooms. Construction will occur in phases; phase one will include the relocation of services such as maternal child health, radiology, and space for growth at a cost of $292 million.
NCRR Develops Strategic Plan
NCRR, the National Center for Research Resources, is seeking input to develop a new Strategic Plan covering 2009 – 2013. NCRR is a $1 billion-a-year research center that enables NIH-funded researchers across the country to translate basic discoveries into improved patient care. To ensure that NCRR continues to meet the needs of biomedical investigators, input on six questions which were published in the Federal Register on July 6, 2007, is requested.