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Isogen Constructs Modular Cleanroom
Isogen has selected AES Clean Technology to design and construct a modular cleanroom facility for clinical pharmaceutical manufacturing in New Castle County, Delaware. The sterile contract filling facility will support multiple products from development through clinical, launch, and commercial production. The project will include isolators within a gas-sterilizable modular cleanroom, optimizing containment to prevent cross-contamination of compounds in a multi-product environment.
UC San Diego Plans Biomedical Research Building
The University of California, San Diego has selected Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects to design a new biomedical research facility on the Health Sciences campus in La Jolla. The project will include approximately 150,000-sf of wet-bench laboratories, laboratory support, laboratory core facilities, and office/conference space to accommodate biomedical research programs at UCSD’s School of Medicine, including a new multi-department program in genomic medicine and expanded department of neurosciences.
D'Youville College Builds Academic Center
D'Youville College will initiate construction in May of 2008 on a $20 million academic center on its West Side campus in Buffalo, N.Y. Designed by Cannon Design, the 93,000-sf, six-story facility will house classrooms, laboratories, faculty and administrative offices, conference rooms, and space for a pharmacy program. The project manager is Savarino Cos. of Buffalo.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center Constructs Patient Tower
Cookeville Regional Medical Center is constructing an $80 million, 228,000-sf patient tower in Cookeville, Tenn. The six-story north tower is slated for completion in October of 2008 with a grand opening slated for early 2009. The project began construction in fall of 2006. The project includes a two-story atrium lobby and two entrances. The second floor will house a cancer center featuring a TomoTherapy unit, a new technology for radiation treatment of cancerous tumors.
University of Kansas Medical Center Creates Life Sciences Incubator
The University of Kansas Medical Center has received a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce to create a life sciences incubator. The $6.25 million project includes renovation of the on-campus Breidenthal building to create a 40,000-sf facility housing laboratories, offices, commons, telecommunications, and a 6,000-sf wet lab. The incubator will support 10 companies.