Case Western Reserve University celebrated the opening of its new laboratory facility in Cleveland, Ohio, in fall of 2005. Designed by The Stubbins Associates and its affiliate Kling, the 18,755-sf facility is sited on the University's new 140-acre West Quad and will serve as the headquarters for both the Cleveland Center for Structural Biology and the Wright Fuel Cell Group.
The University of North Carolina is constructing a $35-million, 100,000-gsf facility to house its Bioinformatics Program at the Charlotte Research Institute campus. Intended to foster commercial biomedical and biotechnological partnerships, the building will house wet and dry labs and space for research and instruction.
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) will initiate construction in April 2006 on the Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center on its Durham campus. Slated to open in 2007, the 65,000-sf facility will house research laboratories for biotechnology and biomanufacturing, lab support, classrooms, and an auditorium. The building will be sited adjacent to NCCU's new $36-million science complex.
Georgia State University will construct a new $105-million science and laboratory facility in downtown Atlanta. The University is working with Atlanta-based engineering and architectural group Heery International on the project.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is adding approximately 750,000 sf of biomedical research space and outpatient care in a new complex named the Red and Charline McCombs Institute for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer.
UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is planning to construct the $435-million Institute for Nanoelectronic Discovery and Exploration. The project includes a new 250,000-sf facility with a 100,000-sf cleanroom to be built at the Albany Center for Excellence. The institute is being co-created by the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Semiconductor Research Corp. A second institute will be located in California's Silicon Valley.
The University of Missouri-Columbia is constructing the $16.3-million Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The project includes renovation of the 29,103-sf Sociology building and the 18,030-sf Walter William hall and construction of a four-story building connecting the two facilities. The institute will house classrooms, laboratory space, a TV studio, and editing workstations. The project contractors are Kozeny-Wagner of St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo.-based Sircal Contracting.
Harvard Medical School is working with Boston-based architect Miller Dyer Spears to design the Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center in Boston. The sustainable facility is expected to attain a LEEDTM Silver rating and will feature a green roof and a skylit atrium bringing daylight into new and existing interiors. The project, to be finished in late 2006, will have a state-of-the-art tiered classroom, a graduate student center, reading rooms, lounge space and faculty offices.
Stony Brook University is planning to develop a 246-acre research and development park on a site straddling Stony Brook and St. James, N.Y. Groundbreaking for a 100,000-sf Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) is expected in spring of 2006.
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.
Arizona State University will break ground on January 20, 2006 on Skysong, formerly known as the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, sited on 37 acres in Scottsdale. The architects of the $300 million project are Pei Cobb Freed of New York and Phoenix-based DMJM, with Sundt Construction as general contractor.
The University of Colorado is developing its future health sciences campus at the site of the former Fitzsimons military base in Aurora, Colorado. The University will raise $203 million for educational facilities at the new campus including an eight-story office building with conference rooms; a library; classrooms; lecture halls; and facility support buildings. Totaling over 770,000 sf, the project is slated for completion in 2007.
The University of Virginia Health System is planning to construct three new facilities on its Charlottesville campus: a $25-million translational research facility with laboratories; a $15-million outpatient facility for Children's Hospital; and a $5-million clinical center accommodating cancer care. The facilities are being funded by a $45-million donation from the Ivy Foundation to further biomedical research.
Texas Christian University has received a 2005 IOC/IAKS Award from the International Association for Sports & Leisure Facilities for the Student University Recreation Center on its Fort Worth campus. Designed by Cannon Design, the $24-million comprehensive renovation and construction project transformed the outdated 1970s building into a dynamic facility housing a three-court gym, racquetball courts, an aerobics room, and a fitness center.
The University of Georgia will open the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in Athens, Ga., in January 2006. The 140,000-sf facility will house administrative offices for the College of Public Health, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, Health Communications group, and the Bioimaging Resource Center. The top two floors will accommodate laboratory-based research groups including the Tropical and Emerging Global Disease group and studies in developmental biology.
