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Industry News
Children's Hospital of Orange County Uses BIM to Build Patient Care Tower
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) is building the $563 million Patient Care Tower II in Orange, Calif. Promoting a serene, healing environment, the tower will feature leading design and safety principles, private rooms, and enhanced amenities. The facility will also include advanced pediatric surgical suites and emergency, laboratory, pathology, imaging, and radiology services. The project is expected to reach completion in December of 2012.
Western Digital Builds Malaysia R&D Facility
Western Digital will build a $1.2 billion R&D and manufacturing facility in Petaling Jaya, Penang. The 1.5 million-sf project is slated for completion in the third quarter of 2011. The facility will develop and produce magnetic heads, media components, and hard disk drives.
WakeMed Health Opens Patient Tower
WakeMed Health celebrated the opening of its $99 million patient tower in Raleigh, N.C., in May of 2010. The four-story project provides 41 cardiovascular care rooms, 20 cardiac intensive care beds, and a children’s hospital.
Dow Chemical Builds East China Emulsion Plant
The Dow Chemical Company will begin construction in the fourth quarter of 2010 on a $17 million emulsion plant in Zhangjiagang, China. Supporting Dow’s expansion in the Chinese coatings market, the facility will begin production in late 2011.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Renovates Center for Translational Molecular Imaging
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is initiating a 4,156-sf renovation of the Center for Translational Molecular Imaging in Baltimore. Supported by $7 million in federal stimulus funding, the project will create an imaging suite with a dual modality PET scanner and a reagents manufacturing laboratory. The sustainably designed facility will feature HEPA filtration and is slated for completion by January of 2012.