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Diablo Valley College, a Pleasant Hill, Calif.-based community college, broke ground in November 2003 on its new campus in San Ramon, Calif. Sited on seven acres, the $26.4- million campus will feature classrooms, three multi-purpose labs with 32 computer stations, four science labs, and art studios. A library, senior center and childcare facility will be built adjacent to the campus. The project is expected to reach completion in 2006.

The University of California, Davis is constructing the new Neurosciences Building. Designed by SmithGroup, the 238,000-gsf (138,000-nsf) facility houses 102,515-sf of vivarium, laboratory, and laboratory support space.

Boston University is constructing a $31 million, 120,000-sf graduate student housing dormitory. The facility will accommodate 220 studio and one bedroom apartments. The project developer is Trammell Crow.

University College Cork in Ireland has selected Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott to design a 50,000-sf expansion of its existing 100,000-sf library. The $21 million project will improve access and create additional space for users, campus collections and archives, as well as expanding study and instructional facilities.

Alta Bates Hospital will launch a consolidated women and infants center at its Berkeley campus in July of 2004. Replacing the Oakland Summit campus maternity ward (which will become a cardiovascular services center) the $15 million project will include new labor, delivery, post-partum and recovery rooms, 90 percent of which will be private. The facility will also house a new women’s resource center.