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Brandeis University will break ground in spring 2006 on the $154-million Carl J. Shapiro Science Center on its Waltham, Mass., campus. Designed by Payette Associates of Boston, the 175,000-sf project is the largest capital initiative in the University's history. The building will feature interdisciplinary research labs, a science commons, classrooms, seminar rooms, conference rooms, and a cafe.

The California Academy of Sciences is working with architect Renzo Piano to design a LEED ™ platinum facility in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

The U.S. Army has awarded Hensel Phelps Construction Co. the $31-million contract to construct a new anechoic chamber at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The project, known as the Electromagnetic Vulnerability Assessment Facility, will be isolated from external sounds or electromagnetic radiation. Slated for completion in July of 2008, the chamber will replace one destroyed by fire in 2002.

Case Western Reserve University celebrated the opening of its new laboratory facility in Cleveland, Ohio, in fall of 2005. Designed by The Stubbins Associates and its affiliate Kling, the 18,755-sf facility is sited on the University's new 140-acre West Quad and will serve as the headquarters for both the Cleveland Center for Structural Biology and the Wright Fuel Cell Group.

The University of North Carolina is constructing a $35-million, 100,000-gsf facility to house its Bioinformatics Program at the Charlotte Research Institute campus. Intended to foster commercial biomedical and biotechnological partnerships, the building will house wet and dry labs and space for research and instruction.