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The Ohio State University in Columbus plans to begin construction in September 2001 on the $45,000,000 Robinson Laboratory, a four-story, 235,000-gsf structure for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The building will house 95,000 nsf of lab and lab support space. Research Facilities Design of San Diego was recently selected as the laboratory building design consultant. The architect is Baxter Hodell Donnelly Preston of Cincinnati.

National University is building a new 40,000-sf central library at its campus in Kearny Mesa at the San Diego Spectrum business park. Dubbed a "cybrary", the cyber-library will be hard-wired for instant retrievel of multimedia, and will provide access to databases, E-books, E-journals, and other Web-based resources. The facility will also accommodate 250,000 volumes of traditional books and periodicals.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 10-year building and renovation plans for the CDC's two main Atlanta campuses are expected to cost approximately $1.1 billion. Five new laboratories and four lab renovations, plus renovations to a number of lab support buildings, are included in the plan. A substantial increase for the CDC's 2001 facilities budget has been approved by the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Approval of the new budget would speed completion of the project.

Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College's Bicentennial Hall was just awarded "Lab of the Year" by R&D Magazine. The 108,000 GSF building is home to offices for six departments--psychology, physics, geology, geography, chemistry and biochemistry, and biology.

National University is building a new 40,000-sf central library at its campus in Kearny Mesa at the San Diego Spectrum business park. Dubbed a "cybrary", the cyber-library will be hard-wired for instant retrieval of multimedia, and will provide access to databases, electronic books and journals, and other Web-based resources. The facility will also accommodate 250,000 volumes of traditional books and periodicals.