A consortium led by Rutgers University has received $50 million in New Jersey state funding to construct a stem cell research facility in Camden. Partnering with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the laboratory will be the center of a statewide network of interconnected biomedical research and collection centers.
Loma Linda University began construction in late 2006 on the new Centennial Complex in Loma Linda, Calif. The facility is the first academic facility to be built at the University in over 20 years and is being built by contractor McCarthy. The 148,861-sf project is comprised of a $65-million facility providing leading-edge classrooms, labs, exam rooms, faculty offices, and an amphitheater center with a 250-seat theater and a 350-seat theater for classes, seminars, and programs.
Texas A&M Health Science Center is planning a new Health Science Center on 200 acres in Bryan, Texas. The first phase of the master plan for the site may include three buildings at a cost of $128 million. Fifty of the acres at the Bryan campus will accommodate public/private partnerships. Slated for completion by year-end 2010, the design includes an education building with a possible nursing or pharmacy component and a simulation center allowing medical students to practice treatment on dummies.
Stanford University's Graduate School of Business is planning to break ground on a new campus in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2008. The $275-million, 340,000-sf facility will be named the Knight Management Center. The campus will feature a 450-seat auditorium, classrooms, dining facilities, and offices for faculty and staff. Construction is expected to reach completion in four to five years.
Construction has begun at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom on a new £40 million biomedical research facility known as the Smith Extension. Designed by Wilson Mason and Partners, the 101,800-sf six-story facility will house the faculties of life science and medicine. The building is laid out around a central light well and shared laboratory facilities are located at ground level, including a freezer farm and a histology suite.
The University of Missouri-Columbia and the National Institutes of Health have awarded K&S Associates of St. Louis the $12.6 million contract to construct the new Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL). Located on the east campus with the Veterinary Medicine Complex, the 23,000-gsf BSL-3 facility will contain 9,768 sf of research and support space. The facility will feature a penthouse and full basement for HVAC, mechanical, and electrical systems and equipment.
The University of California, Irvine is constructing a new 480,000-sf academic medical center at its existing medical campus in Orange, Calif. The $371-million hospital will accommodate 191 beds with space for future expansion. Designed by HOK, the seven story plus basement facility will feature 13 operating rooms; three interventional procedure rooms; laboratories; adult, pediatric, and neonatal ICUs; private patient rooms; a burn unit; and a connecting link to the existing tower structure.
Pennsylvania State University is planning to construct a 350,000-sf Materials/Life Science research facility at its campus in University Park. The total project investment for the biomedical and nanotechnology engineering facility is estimated at $190 million.
McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is in the design phase of the development of the Glen Campus in Montreal. To be located on a 43-acre former brownfield site, the nearly $1.6 million (Canadian) redevelopment project will involve the creation of an academic healthcare campus and hospital dedicated to integrated clinical care, research, and teaching.
Emory University has received $261.5 million from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to fund expansion and renovation of its healthcare and research operations. A $240-million modernization of the outpatient care facilities at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center will enable the implementation of a patient-centered treatment model supported by translational research.
The University of Chicago has begun construction on a 396,000-sf residence hall and dining facility at its Chicago campus. Designed by architects Goody Clancy and Campbell Tiu Campbell, the project is being built by a joint venture of Gilbane Building Company, UBM, Inc., and Ardmore Associates.
The University of Toledo is planning to construct a 43,000-sf College of Pharmacy facility on its Ohio health sciences campus. Providing additional laboratories and research space, the $15 million project will be constructed on the site of the Medical University of Ohio; the two institutions merged in summer of 2006. Poggemeyer Design Group of Bowling Green, Ohio is the project architect. Construction of the new building will allow the College of Pharmacy to utilize its existing home in Wolfe Hall for other laboratory classes.
Binghamton University is planning to initiate construction on a new research facility, Science V, in spring or fall of 2008. Currently in the design phase, the project will provide additional research and surge space and will be located between Science III and Science IV on the school's Binghamton, N.Y. campus. Completion is expected in fall of 2010. The University will also construct a new engineering facility in the Innovative Technologies Complex, which opened in fall of 2006.
Texas Woman's University is planning to break ground in 2008 on the $32-million T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences in Dallas. Combining two of TWU's existing educational sites, the new facility will be located in the Southwestern Medical District at the TWU Parkland location. Accommodating programs in nursing, physical and occupational therapy, healthcare administration, and library science, the 143,000-sf multi-building campus will also house the TWU Stroke Center.
The University of California Davis Medical Center is planning to construct the $75-million Center for Regenerative Science and Therapies in Davis, Calif. The University-funded sterile stem cell research laboratory will include testing and manufacturing capabilities and will partner with the California National Primate Research Center and other campus laboratories. Initial construction fees, yet to be approved by the UC Board of Regents, are estimated at $22 million.
