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The Clark R. Bavin National Forensic Laboratory in Ashland is planning a 37,000-sf addition and renovation. It is the only comprehensive full-service wildlife crime lab in the world, and serves an international purpose by meeting the forensic needs of wildlife agencies globally. HERA Inc. of St. Louis is responsible for laboratory programming for the addition that will supplement the existing 23,000-sf crime lab facility. HarleyEllis in Southfield, Mich., is the architect and engineer.

Investigen, an Alameda, Calif.-based biotechnology company, plans to build a 27,000-sf facility on a 1.8-acre site at the North Shore Business Park in Hercules. Investigen expects to occupy 17,000 sf of the structure, subleasing the remaining 17,000 sf.

The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is planning a new state-of-the-art forensic biology laboratory. The 322,000-gsf, state-of-the-art DNA facility will consolidate disconnected forensic activities conducted at separate sites into one new 12-story facility at Bellevue Hospital Center. HERA Inc.   of St. Louis is providing forensic lab design. Perkins Eastman Architects in association with LSGM Architects in New York are the architects for the project.

 MedImmune announced plans in May 2001 to build a huge campus-style 750,000-sf headquarters on 25 acres in Gaithersburg. Construction of phase one of the three-phase project will be a $70 million, 210,000-sf complex scheduled for completion in late 2002. The two-building structure will accommodate 60,000 sf of R&D space and 150,000 sf of administrative space. Amenities will include a covered parking lot, a cafeteria, and health club. Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum of St. Louis is designing the facility, which will be built by Quadrangle Development of Washington.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is proposing a new 52l,000-sf research facility and distance learning center for the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies. The building’s design, completed by Harley Ellis of Detroit, Mich., includes a computer center lab; large lecture hall; specially equipped high-end distance learning center; four self-contained incubator suites for computer-based collaborations; four team suites for multi-disciplinary research.