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Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Medical Nears Completion
Construction on the Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, is nearing completion. Sited between two existing fully operational hospital towers, the $103 million, 400,000-sf facility is slated to open in September of 2007. The project began construction in fall of 2004. The 10-story facility will house 16 operating rooms, a 32-bed ICU, and 128 private patient rooms.
University of Central Florida Designs College of Medicine
The University of Central Florida is designing a new $68 million College of Medicine facility at the UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando. The project team includes Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge as design architect and HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando as architect of record. The four-story, 100,000-sf building will house the medical library, classrooms, offices, and laboratories. The medical library includes study, computer, and collaboration areas.
UCSF To Build Cardiovascular Research Center
UC San Francisco is planning to build a $241-million Cardiovascular Research Institute facility at is Mission Bay, San Francisco campus. Groundbreaking is slated for 2008 with completion expected in 2011.
Merck Expands Stonewall Plant for Gardasil Production
Merck is engaged in a $57-million expansion of its Stonewall plant in Elkton, Va. to accommodate demand for its Gardasil vaccine. The project is the second phase of expansion at the facility and includes construction of a new building and installation of purification technologies for pharmaceutical production. The first $40-million phase included a vaccine fermentation unit and was completed in 2006.
URI Breaks Ground on $60 Million Biotechnology Center
The University of Rhode Island (URI) broke ground in March 2007 on the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences in Kingston, R.I. Funded in part by a $1 million donation from Amgen, the facility will serve as a major center of education and research that will drive economic development in the state's growing biotechnology industry. The architect for the center is Payette Associates of Boston, and Providence-based Gilbane Building Co. will serve as the construction manager.