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Houston Healthcare Plans Hospital Replacement Project
Houston Healthcare has selected Gilbane Building Company as the construction manager at-risk for phase I of its master plan to ultimately replace Houston Medical Center, the main hospital campus in Warner Robins, Georgia. Phase I will consist of a new central energy plant, a new four-story bed tower, and renovations to the existing 186-bed facility. The new building will be approximately 134,000 sf including a 30,000-sf basement.
Texas A&M Designs New Health Science Center
Texas A&M Health Science Center is planning a new Health Science Center on 200 acres in Bryan, Texas. The first phase of the master plan for the site may include three buildings at a cost of $128 million. Fifty of the acres at the Bryan campus will accommodate public/private partnerships. Slated for completion by year-end 2010, the design includes an education building with a possible nursing or pharmacy component and a simulation center allowing medical students to practice treatment on dummies.
Danbury Hospital Constructs Outpatient Diagnostic Building
Danbury Hospital has initiated construction on its new Outpatient Diagnostic Building in Danbury, Conn. The total project is valued at $44 million. Skanska USA Building is providing construction management services for the 60,000-sf, three story building as well as a new 366-space parking garage.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Plans New Campus
Stanford University's Graduate School of Business is planning to break ground on a new campus in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2008. The $275-million, 340,000-sf facility will be named the Knight Management Center. The campus will feature a 450-seat auditorium, classrooms, dining facilities, and offices for faculty and staff. Construction is expected to reach completion in four to five years.
University of Manchester Builds Biomedical Research Facility
Construction has begun at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom on a new £40 million biomedical research facility known as the Smith Extension. Designed by Wilson Mason and Partners, the 101,800-sf six-story facility will house the faculties of life science and medicine. The building is laid out around a central light well and shared laboratory facilities are located at ground level, including a freezer farm and a histology suite.