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Boston University will establish the Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development with a $10.7-million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The project will involve construction of chemistry libraries for licensing to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Crittenton Hospital Medical Center is planning an $86-million expansion and renovation of its Rochester Hills hospital. Albert Kahn Associates is providing full architectural and engineering services for the 140,000-sf multi-phase project. The new facility will include a women and children's center, expanded inpatient and outpatient surgery centers, radiology and emergency departments, OB/GYN and orthopedic areas, a chest pain clinic, adult and pediatric urgent care areas, an education center and a gift shop.

DaimlerChrysler's new 543,000-sf state-of-the-art manufacturing facility began production in July 2002. The engine plant is located on a brownfield construction site adjacent to the existing Kenosha Engine Plant in Kenosha, Wisc. The new plant is attached to the existing plant via a connector link that centralizes the shipping docks of both facilities and serves as a common utility route between both facilities and the new compressor building.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has selected McCarthy to construct its new $70-million Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies in Troy, N.Y. Upon completion in 2004, the 218,000-sf building will house 60 faculty and more than 300 researchers and graduate students dedicated to researching the application of engineering and the physical and information sciences to the life sciences. Focus areas will include functional tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, integrated systems biology, bioinformatics, biocatalysis and metabolic engineering.

Wyeth has worked with McCarthy to upgrade its St. Louis facilities, purchased in 1998, for the production of the hemoophilia drug ReFacto®. McCarthy has completed more than 500 projects for a total of almost $30 million to ready the cGMP manufacturing facilities, labs, warehouse and offices for Wyeth's manufacturing needs. Currently, the St. Louis facility is the only one in the United States producing ReFacto®. Flad & Associates of Madison, Wisc., has provided architectural services.