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The University of California, Los Angeles dedicated the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) facility on December 14, 2007. Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, the interdisciplinary facility houses laboratories and leading edge equipment for nanoscience research and development. The Institute accommodates 75 faculty members and researchers and over 300 graduate students engaged in creating biomedical, manufacturing, and information technologies.

Texas Tech Health Sciences Center opened the 152,000-sf Physicians Medical Pavilion in Lubbock, Texas in December of 2007. The $36 million patient care and research building features 162 exam rooms and 15 procedure rooms and houses family and community medicine, internal medicine, ophthalmology, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery, and surgery clinics. The project, which created additional space for research in the existing Health Sciences Center, involved 25,000-sf of renovation in that facility. 

Covance Inc., a drug development services company, has selected a 300,000-sf facility in the Innovation Technology Park in Manassas, Va. as the site for its new pharmaceutical research and development laboratory. The Prince William county facility was originally constructed as an insulin manufacturing plant for Eli Lilly. Covance will expand the facility to a total of 410,000-sf at a cost of $175 million. Construction is slated for completion by January of 2011 with occupancy expected by the end of that year. Covance is headquartered in Princeton, N.J.

Ohio University is planning to construct a $450,000 animal research facility south of its Athens campus in Hebbardsville. The facility will accommodate large animals including cattle and goats for anatomy and physiology studies. Designed to promote faculty recruitment, the facility will enable research on locomotion, feeding, and craniofacial morphology.

Available from CES Group is a cost- and space- effective solution to the challenging problem of steam absorption. Following extensive research and development, CES Group has developed a nozzle-free, multiple-tube steam dispersion humidification system. The system has proven far more effective than using single duct tube or conventional steam pipe injection systems. The frame-like humidification system comprises a bank of multiple, evenly spaced tubes that provide instantaneous, evenly distributed steam.