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Adaptimmune Constructs Biopharmaceutical R&D Center
Adaptimmune is building a 67,000-sf biopharmaceutical R&D center in Abingdon in the United Kingdom. Designed by Nicholas Hare, the facility will provide laboratories, offices, and conference rooms for approximately 200 investigators and staff. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2015 and completion is expected in late 2016. The facility is located on the Milton Park technology campus and is being developed by MEPC.
University of Chicago Medicine Breaks Ground on Center for Advanced Care at Orland Park
University of Chicago Medicine broke ground in October of 2015 on the $61 million Center for Advanced Care at Orland Park. The four-story, 108,000-sf ambulatory healthcare facility will provide 80 exam rooms and will offer cardiology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, women’s health, and radiation oncology services. The general contractor for the project is Bowa Construction. Occupancy is expected in 2016.
Riverside Research Completes Expansion
Defense contractor Riverside Research completed a $7 million expansion of its Dayton campus in October of 2015. The project features the 20,200-sf Open Innovation Center, a collaborative and secure research environment providing multidisciplinary lab space for the study of computational electromagnetics, sensors, optical lasers, and space propulsion and communications. The 30,000-sf facility features a plasma chamber capable of simulating space conditions as well as an EMI-shielded suite.
University of Glasgow Opens Centre for Virus Research
The University of Glasgow opened the $35 million Sir Michael Stoker Building in October of 2015 on its Garscube campus in Scotland. Housing the Centre for Virus Research (CVR), the facility provides advanced laboratories for the study of human and veterinary virology. The building was created in partnership with the Medical Research Council and includes research offices and interaction areas. The project team included Sheppard Robson Architects, general contractor Laing O’Rourke, and engineering consultant Arup.
Low EMI Elevator Design Supports Strategic Siting of Research Instrumentation
The siting of sensitive instruments in a research facility requires awareness of the electromagnetic field (EMF) environment and the various types and locations of emission sources. Some of the most difficult electromagnetic interference (EMI) challenges include DC and geomagnetic sources such as cars, trucks, subways, and trains, as well as facility elevators. The EMI footprint from the movement of an elevator through the earth’s magnetic field can exclude large areas of a facility from housing sensitive tools and instruments.