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Newcastle University has selected ISG to construct the £7.1 million Translational Research Building in the United Kingdom. Housing research space, clinical facilities, and a business incubator, the four-story project will link the Henry Wellcome Biogerontology Building and the Clinical Ageing Research Unit. Completion is expected in summer of 2011.

Baptist Health will begin construction in fall of 2010 on a $200 million medical tower in Jacksonville, Fla. The 11-story, 340,000-sf facility will house inpatient care, surgical suites, imaging, and the Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

Via Christi Health will begin construction in July of 2010 on a $9 million surgical cancer institute in Wichita, Kan. The 40,700-sf facility will deliver advanced cancer care services with 40 private patient rooms and surgical suites. The project will include family areas, a conference center, physician collaboration space, and an integrative therapy center. The project architect is GLMV Architecture with Hutton Construction Corp. as general contractor.

Vanderbilt Medical Center will begin construction in fall of 2010 on a $30 million expansion of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. The 30,000-sf addition will provide 33 inpatient beds, a neonatal ICU, surgical suites, and research space. The design architect for the project is Earl Swensson Associates. The five-story addition will be built atop the existing pediatric emergency department.

BloodCenter of Wisconsin will build out 7,000 sf of shell space at its Milwaukee Blood Research Institute facility to create a 4,771-sf stem cell research laboratory. Supported by $2.9 million in federal stimulus funding, the project will provide 10 modules and adjacent alcoves, a 1,655-nsf core lab, and GMP cleanroom manufacturing space.