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North Carolina State University has broken ground on a $35-million, 100,000-sf research facility, the first structure of the Centennial Biomedical Campus at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Atlanta-based Leeman Architectural Woodwork, a maker of custom displays and counters, will consolidate three separate Fulton County facilities with a move to a planned 350,000-sf manufacturing distribution facility in Powder Springs. Total building cost is approximated at $22 per square foot. The facility is slated for completion in January 2004.

UC Berkeley began construction in March 2003 on the new $162.3-million Stanley Hall. Part of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), the facility will provide 275,000 sf on eight floors above ground and three floors below ground. Replacing the existing Stanley Hall, the interdisciplinary facility will not belong to a single department but instead will bring together biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering researchers.

Agilent Technologies, a Palo Alto-based test and measuring equipment developer, has opened a new $92-million business and technology facility in Singapore.

George Washington University is using $5-million in federal funds to create READI, the Response to Emergencies and Disasters Institute on its satellite campus in Loudoun County. The institute will train between 10,000 and 20,000 first responders annually, teaching firefighters, emergency management personnel, health care providers and law enforcement officers to respond in the event of a terrorist attack. Occupying up to half of the 100,000-sf former Psinet building, the center is expected to be operational in summer of 2003.