Industry News

Intel will begin construction in early 2011 on a multibillion-dollar research fab in Hillsboro, Ore. The D1X facility will house extensive cleanroom facilities and is expected to open in 2013.

Montgomery College is constructing the $74 million Rockville Science Center in Maryland. Slated for occupancy in fall of 2011, the four-story facility will provide a total of 29 laboratories for biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. The 140,000-sf center features a green roof, a photovoltaic array, and an astronomical observatory. Construction began on the project in 2009.

Hackensack University Medical Center dedicated the $130 million John Theurer Cancer Center in October of 2010. The five-story, 155,000-sf outpatient facility features a four-story atrium, healing gardens, radiation oncology suites, four linear accelerator vaults, advanced imaging technologies, and a kitchen for cooking classes. The center was built by William Blanchard Co. of Springfield. The duration of construction was two and a half years.

The Michigan Center for Regenerative Medicine broke ground on a 30,000-sf facility in Plymouth in October of 2010. Housing wet lab space, offices, and manufacturing suites, the center will support research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of adult stem cell and regenerative medicine therapies. The newly renovated facility will include a 2,600-sf Good Manufacturing Practice/Current Good Tissue Practice laboratory. 

The University of Massachusetts is planning to build the $85 million New Academic Classroom Building in Amherst. Designed by Burt Hill, the five-story 150,000-sf facility will provide 1,800 classroom seats and academic space for programs in communications, journalism and linguistics. Completion is expected by January of 2014.