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University of Georgia Opens Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences
The University of Georgia will open the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in Athens, Ga., in January 2006. The 140,000-sf facility will house administrative offices for the College of Public Health, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, Health Communications group, and the Bioimaging Resource Center. The top two floors will accommodate laboratory-based research groups including the Tropical and Emerging Global Disease group and studies in developmental biology.
UC San Francisco Designs Cardiovascular Research Institute
The University of California, San Francisco has selected The SmithGroup and Jim Jennings Architecture to design the new Cardiovascular Research Building on its Mission Bay Campus. The 200,000-sf facility will house lab, office, and vivarium space and will connect to the planned Cancer Research Building designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects. Construction on the cardiovascular facility will begin in 2007 and reach completion in 2009. The project may cost approximately $100-million.
UC Berkeley Plans Executive Education Center
The University of California, Berkeley is planning to construct a 140,000-sf executive education center at a cost of over $30 million. Housing meeting rooms, lecture halls accommodating up to 300 participants, and up to 100 hotel-like residential rooms, the center is expected to break ground in 2008 or 2009.
New LEED(TM) Laboratory Opens at Boston's BioSquare
The first LEEDTM-certified core and shell lab building in the northeast U.S. will open at the BioSquare biomedical research complex in Boston. Designed by The Stubbins Associates and developed by Spaulding & Slye and Boston Medical Center, the 160,000-sf lab features 20,000-sf floorplates, energy efficient building systems, a shared auditorium and conference rooms, and a sophisticated security system.
Princeton University Builds Engineering Facility
Princeton University has selected Los Angeles-based Frederick Fisher and Partners to design a new facility for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Sited near the Engineering Quadrangle to further the concept of "academic neighborhoods," the three-story facility will foster interdisciplinary research and seek to address the social aspects of advances in computer technology.