Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory dedicated the $85 million Molecular Foundry in Berkeley, Calif. on March 24, 2006. Construction began on the six-story, 95,000-sf nanotechnology center in December of 2003. Designed by the architectural firm SmithGroup, the facility is one of five U.S. Department of Energy nanotechnology research centers.
Construction of the National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) is underway at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. A collaboration of the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services, the 200-acre site will be developed over the next six years. Construction of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility began in summer of 2005 and is slated for completion in December 2007.
The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce will initiate construction of its new $55-million Civic Center in Santa Fe's historic district in early 2006. The 45,000-sf Sweeney Center currently located on the site will be demolished to allow construction of the new 72,000-sf facility. Designed by Santa Fe-based Spears Architects and Denver-based Fentress Bradburn Architects, the facility will include a two-story underground parking garage when it reaches completion in fall of 2007.
A new 100,000-sf police and fire training center will begin construction in Boca Raton, Fla., in January 2006. To be built by general contractor Kaufman Lynn, the $8-million project includes the complete renovation of a building formerly occupied by Sony. The training center will include an auditorium, gymnasium, classrooms, and administrative offices. Designed by architect PGAL of Boca Raton, the facility is slated for completion in December 2006.
The National Park Service has initiated construction on the Twin Creeks Science and Education Center, a research facility that will support the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an initiative to document all life forms in the 500,000-acre park.
The City and County of Denver has selected a subsidiary of Pasadena, Calif.-based Jacobs Engineering Group to provide comprehensive project management services for its new $378-million Justice Center. The project consists of over 750,000 sf of new construction including a courthouse with 35 courtrooms, a post office, a 1,500-bed jail, and a 600-car parking structure.
Saint Louis University will construct a $67-million research building for the School of Medicine on its midtown Saint Louis campus. The 206,000-sf facility will have a ten-story tower on the north end and will be connected at the south end to the School of Medicine by a covered walkway. The first floor will be comprised of clinical core lab space, with flexible, modular research laboratories and offices on floors two through eight.
Oregon's Department of Public Safety Standards & Training will celebrate the opening of the new Oregon Public Safety Academy in Salem on July 17, 2006. Designed by Portland-based Yost Grube Halls Inc ., the $78-million campus is being built by Hoffman Construction Co. with CH2M Hill as project manager.
The U.S. State Department is constructing a new $275-million U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the embassy is in the first phase of construction and is slated for completion in 2008 in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Sited on ten acres, the multi-structure campus will provide office space for up to 700 diplomats and office workers. The new embassy will consolidate operations currently housed in eleven different locations in Beijing. CENTRIA H.H.
Brown University has received $11 million in funding from a renewal of the National Institutes of Health's Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Grant. In addition to funding research projects, the grant will create a bioinformatics core facility for conducting database analysis. A genomics core facility and a transgenic core facility for creating genetically altered mice, created by the previous NIH grant, will also be supported by the funding.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation broke ground in October 2005 on a new division headquarters facility in Houston. The project consists of an eight-story, 250,000-sf office plus 50,000-sf in two smaller buildings. The high technology facility will be constructed to meet all post-Sept. 11 federal building criteria by Mississippi-based W.G. Yates and Sons. The construction cost is approximately $54.1 million. Upon completion in two years, the headquarters will house 720 employees.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed construction of the new $165-million Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory. Located on the CDC's Edward R. Roybal campus in Atlanta, the 12-story building plus attached five-story structure includes BSL-4, BSL-3, and BSL-2 facilities, offices, molecular biology suites, analytical equipment laboratories, a central glass washing facility, and a central utility plant. Housing over 450 researchers, the 400,000-sf laboratory is slated to open in fall 2005. Construction began in October 2001.
The Tulane National Primate Research Center has received two grants of $4 million each from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health for new construction and expansion of its current breeding facility in Covington, La. The first grant will fund construction of a facility that will house monkeys assigned to a variety of research studies and nursery facilities for infant monkeys.
The City of Denver is planning to construct a new $378-million Justice Center. The master plan for the facility, designed by David Owen Tryba Architects of Denver, includes a 320,428-sf courthouse with 35 criminal courtrooms; a 430,494-sf detention center holding 1,500 inmates; two arraignment courts; and 684-car parking garage plus 204 additional staff parking spaces.
Brookhaven National Laboratory celebrated the groundbreaking of the 94,500-sf Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) in Upton, N.Y., in October of 2005. Designed by HDR Architecture of Alexandria, Va., and constructed by E.W. Howell Co. of Woodbury, N.Y., the $81-million CFN is one of five Nanoscale Science Research Centers to be constructed at Department of Energy national laboratories. The construction cost of the facility is $38 million.
