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UC Davis Plans Engineering Unit 4
The University of California, Davis is planning to construct the $32 million Engineering 4 facility. Designed by CO Architects with Research Facilities Design (RFD) providing laboratory design services, the project will be located in UC Davis’ central campus for chemical engineering and materials science. Housing 40,000 asf, the building is expected to be two to three stories in height and fit within the context of creating the fourth building for the College of Engineering.
College of Marin to Build Science/Math/Central Plant Building
The College of Marin will build a new Science/Math/Central Plant Complex in Kentfield, Calif. The building will accommodate approximately 41,000 nsf of instructional and science laboratories, classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, and administrative space for the departments of physical, earth, and life sciences; mathematics; environmental landscape; and health sciences. The facility will also house a new campus data center and central utility plant in a building complex totaling approximately 77,000 gsf.
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Builds New Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Building
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is planning to build a new Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Building in Rapid City, S.D. The project includes a multi-story two wing classroom and an R&D facility. The classroom portion of the building will include lecture areas, laboratory spaces, and offices. The research and development portion of the building will be open space for future development for interdisciplinary research activities.
Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Medical Nears Completion
Construction on the Center for Advanced Healing at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, is nearing completion. Sited between two existing fully operational hospital towers, the $103 million, 400,000-sf facility is slated to open in September of 2007. The project began construction in fall of 2004. The 10-story facility will house 16 operating rooms, a 32-bed ICU, and 128 private patient rooms.
University of Central Florida Designs College of Medicine
The University of Central Florida is designing a new $68 million College of Medicine facility at the UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando. The project team includes Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge as design architect and HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando as architect of record. The four-story, 100,000-sf building will house the medical library, classrooms, offices, and laboratories. The medical library includes study, computer, and collaboration areas.