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Collin College Opens Health Sciences Center
Collin College opened the Cary A. Israel Health Sciences Center in January of 2016. Located on the Central Park campus in McKinney, Texas, the 125,000-sf facility provides classrooms, offices, and laboratories for programs in nursing, surgical technology, emergency services, respiratory care, and sleep disorders therapy. Designed by PBK Architects and built by Pogue Construction, the three-story project features a large simulation training center with advanced patient simulators and a 150-seat lecture hall.
University of Wyoming Opens Enzi STEM Facility
The University of Wyoming opened the $50 million Michael B. Enzi STEM Facility in Laramie in January of 2016. Designed to promote team-based, interactive learning, the 107,000-sf building features studio-style classrooms and an atrium commons area. The three-story facility provides 32 teaching labs for instruction in chemistry, biology, organic chemistry, physics, mathematics, life sciences, and computer science. The building also houses an atmospheric sciences lab to support collaborative research with the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne.
Bellevue College Opens Health Sciences Building
Bellevue College opened its $21.8 million Health Sciences Building in December of 2015 in Bellevue, Wash. Designed by LMN Architects and built by Bayley Construction, the 70,500-sf facility provides classrooms and teaching labs for programs in imaging and nursing, as well as academic and administrative offices. The Health Sciences Building features a five-room simulation training lab and two clinical skills labs with a total of 20 hospital beds.
Hudson Community College Constructs STEM Building
Hudson County Community College is constructing the $25 million Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics building on its Jersey City campus. The 70,000-sf facility will provide classrooms, science labs, lecture halls, offices, computer labs, student lounges, and a café. Occupancy is expected in 2017.
Methodist University Hospital Plans Memphis Expansion
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has selected Turner Construction as the general contractor for a $280 million expansion of the Methodist University Hospital campus in Memphis, Tenn. Designed by HKS and Self + Tucker Architects, the project includes the creation of a 440,000-sf addition which will be delivered using an overbuild technique to construct a nine-story patient tower on top of the existing emergency department.