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Boston University will renovate 6,700 sf of research and support space in the Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering. The project is supported by $5.8 million in federal stimulus funding and will provide four laboratory modules for translational synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Completion is expected in early 2012.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research broke ground on the $70 million NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne on June 15, 2010. The 153,000-sf project will be constructed by Saunders Construction of Denver. Supporting advanced climate modeling, the facility will support research in weather, oceanography, air pollution, space weather, computational science, energy production, and carbon sequestration.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell broke ground on the $70 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC) on June 8, 2010. Designed by CUH2A, the 84,000-sf lab and office facility will support research, development, and manufacturing of products in the nanotechnology, plastics, biotechnology, and electro-optics fields. LEED Silver sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.

Imec opened its new 300mm cleanroom facility in June of 2010 in Leuven, Belgium. The 10,000-sm project includes a clean processing area of 1,200 sm and 1,600 sm of laboratories for research on biomedical electronics and silicon and organic solar cells. Additionally, Imec will begin construction in fall of 2010 on a 16-story office building designed by Austrian firm Baumschlager-Eberle. The completed Leuven research campus will provide 18,000 sm of cleanroom, laboratory, and office space.

Boise State University will construct the 9,300-sf Biomedical Research Vivarium in Boise, Idaho. The animal housing facility will support multidisciplinary research combining molecular, cellular, biophysical, and biochemical methods. The project is supported by $3.9 million in federal stimulus funding.