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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's new medical research building, designed by Lord Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta, will have a nontraditional design, placing desks near windows to take advantage of natural light, and using interior walls for utilities. Newcomb & Boyd of Atlanta is providing mechanical and electrical engineering for the new structure, ensuring ready access to the utilities in the building.

The University of California, San Francisco’s new 43-acre research campus at Mission Bay is under construction. Phase one includes a 385,000-sf research building; a 165,000-sf center for human genetics, developmental biology, and developmental neuroscience; and a campus community center sporting food courts, a health club and pool, and a library—all scheduled to open by 2003. The developer of the huge project is Catellus.

Tularik hopes to locate approximately 250,000 sf of research space to expand its drug discovery and development operations in the South San Francisco area, where the company is based. The biotechnology company expects to grow from 285 employees, currently housed in two locations, to over 300 in the year 2001.

Xanthon Inc. has proposed building a new 80,000-sf facility in the Research Triangle Park area; the company currently occupies approximately 24,000 sf in three buildings in the Park Research Center there. The structure will house a state-of-the-art lab for R&D, Class 100 and 10,000 cleanroom manufacturing suites, engineering labs, and administrative office space.

BioStratum has worked with Kansas City-based Clark, Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers Inc. (CRB) in the development of process descriptions, process flow diagrams, process analysis, and cell culture scale-up options for BioStratum's early phase development recombinant proteins that will be expressed in cell culture.