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Industry News
Serologicals Builds Kansas Plant
Serologicals Corp. of Atlanta is planning to construct a $28-million plant to manufacture its EX-CYTE serum-free cell culture supplement for the biotech industry. Ground will be broken as early as the first quarter of 2003, with completion slated for the first half of 2004. Sited on 12.5 acres in East Hills Business Park in Lawrence, Kansas, the project will initially consist of one 45,000-sf facility.
UNC School of Medicine Builds Bioinformatics Facility
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is nearing completion of the $23.5-million Bioinformatics Building in Chapel Hill. The 152,000-sf project was designed by Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative PA. Contractor for the project is Clancy & Theys. The engineering team includes GKC Associates (structural); Newcomb & Boyd (mechanical, electrical, fire protection, audio/visual); Diehl & Phillips (civil); and Donna D.
UTHSC Breaks Ground on Edinburg Research Facility
The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is broke ground in December on a new $20-million research facility in Edinburg, one of three new facilities being constructed as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC). Sited on 12 acres adjacent to the University of Texas Pan American campus, the Edinburg facility will house RAHC's medical research division.
UCSF Plans Cancer Research Facility
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is planning the Mission Bay Cancer Research Center. The research facility, expected to reach completion in 2006, will cost over $100-million. UCSF plans to develop a total of 2.65 million sf of biomedical laboratory and instructional space at its Mission Bay campus, for a construction cost of more than $2-billion.
SwRI Completes Fuel Testing Lab
San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has completed a 5,000-sf fuel contamination research and testing laboratory. The facility houses over 4,200-sf of lab space and 12 automated test cells, one dedicated to hybrid fuel cell testing, two to diesel, and nine to gasoline, enabling a greater flexibility in the number of systems and components that can be tested at one time.