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Alcon will break ground in 2009 on a 250,000-sf pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Singapore. The facility will be sited on 20 acres in the Tuas Biomedical Park and will employ 150 workers. The plant is expected to begin operations in 2012. Alcon, based in Huenenberg, Switzerland, researches and manufactures pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment, and devices for the ophthalmic industry.
The University of British Columbia is engaged in a $45 million expansion and renovation of the Sauder School of Business in Vancouver. The project contractor is Scott Construction, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Aecon Group. The project will create new career and business centers and will involve the renovation of a five-story lecture hall and library. Completion is slated for October 2009.
Developer JTC Corp. broke ground in April of 2008 on the $100 million Biopolis III building in Singapore. The 41,500-sm facility will consist of two buildings accommodating biomedical research and incubator space. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of 2009. Crescendas Bionix will occupy at least 50 percent of the facility. A construction start date for the 30,000-sm Biopolis IV has yet to be announced. Biopolis, a biomedical research and development park, is located at One-North in Buona Vista.
The $310 million Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is under construction in West Bloomfield, Mich. Slated for completion in spring of 2009, the four-story, 733,000-sf facility will provide full medical and surgical services, as well as orthopedics, neurosurgery, women's health, cancer care, and cardiovascular services. The hospital, which will include a new emergency department, will initially be constructed with 192 beds and will expand to 300 beds as patient volume increases. All beds will be in private rooms.
The State University of New York at Oswego is planning the renovation and expansion of the existing 80,000-sf Piez Hall to create a 262,000-sf state-of-the-art science center. The first phase of the project, designed by Cannon Design, consists of renovations to Piez Hall and the construction of a 50,000-sf addition; groundbreaking is slated for summer of 2008. The second phase involves the construction of a $69.5 million, 132,000-sf laboratory building fronting Piez Hall.
