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Orange Regional Medical Center Plans New Hospital
Orange Regional Medical Center is planning to break ground on a 606,000-sf, $372-million hospital facility in November of 2007. The seven-story, 374-bed building will be located on a 61-acre vacant site in Wallkill, N.Y., and is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2011. The new hospital will enable Orange Regional Medical Center to consolidate two existing facilities in Middletown and Goshen.
University of Michigan Constructs Eye and Diabetes Research Center
The University of Michigan has selected Gilbane Building Company as construction manager for its new 10-story, 215,000-sf academic medical center dedicated to ophthalmology and Type 1 diabetes. Partners include Cambridge architects Stubbins Associates and Clark Construction. The approximate completion date for the $78-million expansion is June 2009. The first three floors are devoted to clinics, the fourth to surgery, and floors five through eight are dedicated to research.
UCSF Medical Center Plans Mission Bay Hospital Complex
UCSF Medical Center is planning to construct a $1.3-billion hospital campus at its Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Preliminary planning for a mixed-use, 289-bed hospital at the site is currently under way. The facility will include a 183-bed Children's Hospital, a 36-bed women's facility, and a 70-bed cancer center. The $1.3-billion project cost does not include a planned faculty office building, parking, and additional medical research facilities. The children's hospital and the cancer center will replace facilities at the Parnassus Heights and Mt.
University of Victoria Opens Computer Science Facility
The University of Victoria opened its new $25-million Engineering/Computer Science building in British Columbia in fall of 2006. Designed for sustainability with extensive use of natural light, the six-story, 8,975-square meter facility houses classrooms, teaching labs, lecture halls, and offices. The building features a dual plumbing system that utilizes recycled water from the aquatics facility, low-flush toilets and faucets, waterless urinals, and an HVAC heat recovery system that uses the same water for heating and cooling.
Millipore Opens Bedford R&D Center
Millipore Corp. opened its 110,000-sf Bioprocess R&D center in Bedford, Mass., in October of 2006. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the facility contains 47,000 sf of laboratory space. The $50-million building will accommodate development of full-scale applications performance data and processes that simulate commercial conditions and will increase the speed and quality of biopharmaceutical production.