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.
The University of California, San Francisco has selected The SmithGroup and Jim Jennings Architecture to design the new Cardiovascular Research Building on its Mission Bay Campus. The 200,000-sf facility will house lab, office, and vivarium space and will connect to the planned Cancer Research Building designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects. Construction on the cardiovascular facility will begin in 2007 and reach completion in 2009. The project may cost approximately $100-million.
The University of California, Berkeley is planning to construct a 140,000-sf executive education center at a cost of over $30 million. Housing meeting rooms, lecture halls accommodating up to 300 participants, and up to 100 hotel-like residential rooms, the center is expected to break ground in 2008 or 2009.
Princeton University has selected Los Angeles-based Frederick Fisher and Partners to design a new facility for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Sited near the Engineering Quadrangle to further the concept of "academic neighborhoods," the three-story facility will foster interdisciplinary research and seek to address the social aspects of advances in computer technology.
The University of California, Berkeley is initiating construction on the new 67,700-sf C.V. Starr Library at the Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies. When completed in 2007, the facility will be the first free-standing building in the United States dedicated to East Asian collections and will house more than 700,000 bound volumes, a rare book collection, a media and digital materials center, reference and periodical reading rooms, study rooms, offices, and a book processing center. The construction cost for the project is $32 million.
