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Shriners Hospitals for Children is planning to construct a $100 million replacement hospital in Montreal. The facility will house 2,300 sm of research space, 22 private patient rooms, and four surgical suites. Completion is expected by 2014.

Pennsylvania State University will begin construction in fall of 2010 on the $48.1 million Biobehavioral Health Building in University Park, Pa. Providing additional facilities for the College of Health and Human Services, the 93,500-sf building will house classrooms, offices, research space, and a 200-seat lecture hall. The project architect is Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The four-story building will feature "green" roofs and is slated for completion in July of 2012.

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Center for Molecular Medicine will open in September of 2010. Designed by Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, the $77 million facility will house research laboratories, containment suites, offices, an auditorium, and a vivarium for 40,000 mice. Ground was broken on the 116,500-sf project in March 2007. The facility will accommodate research in microbiology, pharmacology, and physiology.

Cornell University has selected Morphosis of Los Angeles to design the 100,000-sf William H. Gates Hall. Housing the departments of computer science and information science, the $60 million facility will feature research and teaching labs designed to foster interaction and collaboration. Completion is expected by early 2014.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened the 730,000-sf CDC 23 in June of 2010 in Atlanta. Housing biological research labs, the 16-story facility was designed by CUH2A and built by Turner Construction. The facility was completed in April of 2010 and represents the final stage of CDC’s laboratory replacement program.