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Ferrosan completed installation of a modular cleanroom in September of 2010. The 325-sm facility was pre-manufactured as a whole in the United Kingdom and shipped to Søborg in Denmark with final hook-up, commissioning, and validation completed on site. The cleanroom was manufactured and installed by Clean Modules. A module housing the air handling unit was pre-commissioned and connected on site.

Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre will open its new translational research laboratory in October of 2010. The $15.8 million facility is located on the expanded third floor of the Cancer Centre and includes drug development and testing suites for advanced biomedical therapies. The project is supported by $9.5 million in federal funding.

University Hospital is planning a $900 million expansion of its San Antonio medical center. A $778 million, 1 million-sf hospital tower is slated for occupancy in 2014. The sustainably designed facility will feature 420 private rooms. Existing facilities for surgery and emergency care will be significantly expanded, and the Robert B. Green Clinic will undergo a $121 million renovation and expansion.

The University of Pittsburgh will renovate 44,525 sf in the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower to house the Vascular Medicine Institute and the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. The project is supported by $14 million in federal stimulus funding. The renovation will create modern, open laboratory space with associated support and chemical fume hood alcoves.

Uncompahgre Medical Center opened its north and south wing expansion in September of 2010. Supported by $440,000 in federal stimulus funding, the $589,000 project provides clinical space, dental care, conference rooms, and administrative offices.