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U.S. Air Force Constructs Class 10000 Cleanroom at Elmendorf
The U.S. Air Force has selected Allied Modular Building Systems to build a Class 10000 cleanroom at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. The facility will be design-built to accommodate America's Global Strike Task Force's C-17 Globemaster III and the F-22A Raptor military programs at the base. The cleanroom will enable critical composite repairs of structural cracks on the C-17 transport fleet and will also include unspecified future operational uses for the F-22A Raptor.
University of Florida Opens Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
The University of Florida opened the 280,000-sf Cancer & Genetics Research Complex in Gainesville in late fall of 2006. The $84.5 million facility contains a five-story research wing of the UF Shands Cancer Center and a six-story Genetics Institute wing. The building also houses the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research and a forensic anthropology lab, the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory.
University of Chicago Constructs New Residence Hall
The University of Chicago has begun construction on a 396,000-sf residence hall and dining facility at its Chicago campus. Designed by architects Goody Clancy and Campbell Tiu Campbell, the project is being built by a joint venture of Gilbane Building Company, UBM, Inc., and Ardmore Associates.
University of Toledo Constructs College of Pharmacy
The University of Toledo is planning to construct a 43,000-sf College of Pharmacy facility on its Ohio health sciences campus. Providing additional laboratories and research space, the $15 million project will be constructed on the site of the Medical University of Ohio; the two institutions merged in summer of 2006. Poggemeyer Design Group of Bowling Green, Ohio is the project architect. Construction of the new building will allow the College of Pharmacy to utilize its existing home in Wolfe Hall for other laboratory classes.
Binghamton University Builds Science and Technology Facilities
Binghamton University is planning to initiate construction on a new research facility, Science V, in spring or fall of 2008. Currently in the design phase, the project will provide additional research and surge space and will be located between Science III and Science IV on the school's Binghamton, N.Y. campus. Completion is expected in fall of 2010. The University will also construct a new engineering facility in the Innovative Technologies Complex, which opened in fall of 2006.