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Medtronic Opens Singapore Operations Facility
Medtronic opened its $56 million Medtronic Singapore Operations (MSO) facility in March of 2011. The facility will house manufacturing and production space for advanced cardiac medical devices. MSO will also serve as Medtronic’s Asia headquarters and distribution hub. Medtronic is based in Minneapolis.
HealthSport Completes cGMP Manufacturing Facility
HealthSport’s integrated thin film production facility will open in April of 2011. Located in Oxnard, Calif., the 30,000-sf project will provide research, development, and cGMP manufacturing space for dissolvable bi-layer oral thin film products for delivery of pharmaceutical active ingredients through buccal absorption. The facility will have a production capacity of up to 480 million strips per year.
University of Tennessee Medical Center Plans Dedicated Cancer Facility
The University of Tennessee Medical Center will break ground in mid-2011 on a $24 million cancer center in Knoxville. Consolidating all outpatient services in a single location, the four-story, 100,000-sf facility is slated for completion in early 2013. The center will house radiation oncology therapy suites and a linear accelerator.
The University of Saskatchewan Plans Dairy Research Facility
The University of Saskatchewan’s College of Agriculture and Bioresources will begin construction in fall of 2011 on a $10.5 million dairy research and teaching facility in Saskatoon. The facility will house teaching areas, animal handling space, a robot milker, a public viewing gallery, and 100 cows. Completion is expected in fall of 2012.
Dixie State College of Utah Breaks Ground on Holland Centennial Commons
Dixie State College of Utah broke ground in March of 2011 on the $48 million Jeffrey R. Holland Centennial Commons Building (HCC) in St. George, Utah. The five-story, 170,000-sf building is expected to reach completion in June of 2012. The HCC Building will house flexible, technology-rich classrooms, faculty offices, a library, a central data center, and student services. The facility is being built by Jacobsen Construction.