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UC Berkeley will open the $162-million Stanley Hall in January of 2007. The 285,000-sf biosciences and bioengineering facility will house approximately 40 research labs, administrative and bioengineering department offices, and up to 10 core facilities. One of these core facilities, the 11,000-sf Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center, will manufacture chips for biochemical and medical applications. Stanley Hall will serve over 30 faculty and over 100 graduate students and is designed to foster multi-disciplinary collaboration.

Hofstra University has completed its new $16-million academic and performing arts facility on its South Campus in Hempstead, New York. The 86,000-sf, four-story building provides performance space for music, dance, and drama, three floors of faculty offices, a 225-seat black box theater, and soundproofed orchestra and music rehearsal spaces. The facility was designed by architect Marty Kapell of Manhattan and built by contractor E.W. Howell of Woodbury.

Texas Southern University has completed its new 165,000-sf Science Center. The four-story, $30-million facility features a full-height atrium and biology research and teaching labs for faculty and graduate students. The center also houses space for chemistry, mathematics, the Environmental Toxicology Ph.D. Program, and the NASA Research Center for Biotechnology and Environmental Health. Texas Southern is also constructing a $15-million, 82,000-sf Public Affairs, Liberal Arts, and Behavioral Sciences building.

Intuit Inc. is constructing its new $146-million regional headquarters in San Diego. The site of the 465,000-sf campus was determined by calculating employee commute times to select a central location. Upon completion, the four-building project will house office space, a 492,000-sf parking structure, and a 15,000-sf fitness center. The project team includes: Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells; Reno Contracting as general contractor; Hope Engineering, structural; M.A.

Wayne State University has completed the $20-million renovation of the Gordon Scott Hall of Basic Sciences in Detroit, Mich. As the building is the main facility for the School of Medicine's teaching, research, and administrative functions, the project included the renovation of approximately 40,000 sf of space on the building's third floor, converting it to a research laboratory, specialized lab support, and office and classroom spaces for the Center for Molecular Medicine & Genetics and the Department of Pharmacology.