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The University of Texas-San Antonio has plans to build a $6.25 million, 30,000-sf facility to permanently house the university's Institute for Economic Development at its Downtown Campus.

The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) plans to expand the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) with CARB II at the university's Shady Grove campus. Most of the $38 million, 140,000-sf four-story building will house research labs, including facilities for both plant core transformation and insect transformation. The structure will also accommodate a 5,000-sf UMBI staff office, and a teaching lab for bioprocess engineering.

The Medical College of Virginia Hospital has selected Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott working with Baskervill & Son of Richmond to design a 229,000-sf, 10-level gateway building to serve as the new "front door" for the campus. The project will create continuity between various medical specialties, enhanceing the deliveryof patient care.

North Carolina State University has selected the Raleigh office of Flad & Associates to complete a master plan for the university's College of Veterinary Medicine. Flad will verify space needs, future growth projections, and analyze current site conditions. The cornerstone of the campus' future development will be a new laboratory building designed by Flad.

Brown University's new 17,000-sf two-level Engineering and Physics Addition has been completed by the George B.H. Macomber Company of Boston. The addition unites the existing 1960s complex and provides cutting-edge labs and teaching spaces. The new structure, designed by Payette Associates of Boston, provides space for digital imaging; rapid prototyping; computing; and electronic, mechanical, electrical, civil, and bioengineering labs.