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Boston College Breaks Ground on Stokes Hall
Boston College broke ground on the 183,000-sf Stokes Hall in October of 2010. Housing the university’s humanities departments, the facility will provide 36 classrooms, faculty offices, conference rooms, and a commons area. The construction manager for the project is Walsh Brothers of Boston. Completion is expected in fall of 2012.
Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Opens in Milwaukee
The $417 million Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital opened in Milwaukee in October of 2010. The nine-story facility was designed by HOK and built by CG Schmidt-Barton Malow. The project provides 312 inpatient beds and houses the McKeithan Testing & Treatment Institute, the Heart & Vascular Institute, the Orthopaedic & Neuroscience Institute, the Regional Burn Center, and the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute (SHRI). Ground was broken on the project in 2006.
Merck Opens Materials Research Center
Merck opened the €50 million Materials Research Center in Darmstadt in September of 2010. The 11,000-sm R&D complex will support research on liquid crystals, fine chemicals, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and mobile energy storage. The sustainably designed facility includes two six-story buildings, a pilot plant, and cleanrooms.
DOE Constructs SRF Accelerator Test Facility at Fermilab
The Department of Energy initiated the second phase of construction of the Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) Accelerator Test Facility in September of 2010. Located at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., the three-building project will include a 460-ft long test accelerator and cryomodules with cavities at a temperatures as low as -456 degrees Fahrenheit. The first phase of construction commenced in March of 2010 and involved the $2.8 million expansion of an existing building.
Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories Opens Columbia Research Facility
Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories opened its renovated and expanded research facilities in Columbia, Mo., in September of 2010. The $4.5 million project created modernized labs for the company’s chemical services division. The general contractor for the project was ARCO Construction of St. Louis. ABC Labs provides testing and evaluation services for chemical, pharmaceutical, and animal health products.