Research and Development

AERCO International, a leading manufacturer of high-efficiency water heaters and boilers, has moved its corporate headquarters to a new facility in Blauvelt, N.Y.  AERCO previously operated out of three separate facilities in Northvale, N.J. The new 156,000-sf building is more than twice the size of AERCO's former headquarters. The facility consolidates all existing operations into one location, allowing for improved communication and efficiency, while providing the necessary space for continued growth.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is building the Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion in Los Angeles. Designed by the Los Angeles office of HOK and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie, the 11-story, 440,000-sf building will provide integrated facilities for outpatient care, translational research, and medical education. The pavilion will house clinical space, diagnostic and imaging facilities, a pharmacy, an education center, research labs, a café, three-floors of underground parking, and two connecting pedestrian bridges.

Construction is under way on the New Karolinska Solna (NKS) Hospital, a 3.5 million-sf, multi-building facility in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Owned by Stockholm County Council, the government entity responsible for providing healthcare and public transport to greater Stockholm, the $2.5 billion project is being built under a unique public-private-partnership (PPP) agreement.

Commonwealth Medical College completed the $115 million Medical Science Building in July of 2011. Located in Scranton, Pa., the four-story, 185,000-sf facility comprises two wings, one housing research space and the other for academic instruction. The building features 35 research labs, 24 small-group teaching rooms, an auditorium, lecture halls, simulation suites for medical training, and a gross anatomy lab with 21 air changes per hour. Construction began on the project in February of 2009. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory dedicated the $95 million Chemical and Materials Sciences Building in July of 2011. The three-story, 160,000-sf facility houses equipment suites, 56 laboratories, 164 offices, and 91 modular workstations for the development of advanced energy products and technologies. The Chemical and Material Sciences Building houses two DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers, the Center for Fluid Interface Reaction Structure and Transport (FIRST) and the Center for Defect Physics (CDP).

Indiana University Health is building the 270,000-sf Neuroscience Center in Indianapolis. Located on the IU Health Methodist Hospital campus, the six-story outpatient facility will include clinical and research diagnostic imaging, surgical suites, collaboration and education space, and a robotic laboratory. Occupancy is expected in summer of 2012. The outpatient facility is the first phase of IU Health’s $120 million neuroscience complex. An adjacent research facility is expected to open in 2013.

Bosch opened its photovoltaics competence center in July of 2011 in Arnstadt, Germany. The $757 million facility provides R&D and manufacturing space as well as housing the company’s solar energy division headquarters. The duration of construction was two years.

JSR Corporation completed construction of a $13 million R&D facility in July of 2011 in Seoul, Korea. The three-story, 43,000-sf project houses research laboratories for the creation of advanced liquid crystal display (LCD) products and technologies. Construction began on the facility in September of 2010.

University College Cork is planning to build a Maritime Research and Testing Centre at the National Maritime College of Ireland. Located in Ringaskiddy, the 55,240-sf project comprises a three-story laboratory building and a single-story, high-bay marine testing facility. The design architect is McCullough Mulvin Architects of Dublin.

Analog Devices will invest $50 million to expand R&D operations at its Raheen campus in County Limerick, Ireland. The project includes construction of a 140,000-sf laboratory and product development facility. 

GlobalFoundries completed construction in July of 2011 on an 110,000-sf wafer manufacturing facility at Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany. The project will enable Fab 1 to operate as a single integrated cleanroom, making the facility one of the the largest and most advanced wafer fabs in Europe.

The National University of Ireland, Galway opened a $57.3 million engineering facility in July of 2011. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2009. The four-story, 153,385-sf building provides classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices, and 36 laboratories. The sustainably designed facility is constructed with a voided slab system which integrates plastic bubbles into the concrete used in the structure. The building is designed to act as a teaching tool and includes heat exchangers, a biomass boiler, and grass roofs.

Cargill opened its $14.7 million research and development facility in July of 2011 in Wichita, Kan. Housing research labs, offices, and product development space, the 75,000-sf food science innovation center will house 70 employees. Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, as well as agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services.

NanoSonic Products opened its new cGMP manufacturing facility in July of 2011 in Alachua, Fla. The renovated and expanded building will support the production of cyclodextrin by NanoSonic's proprietary pulse drying process. All of the facility's energy requirements will be met by photovoltaic panels. The technologies and systems used in the manufacturing process are designed for maximum energy efficiency.

The University of Sheffield will begin construction in November of 2011 on the $34 million Engineering Graduate School in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The facility will support interdisciplinary collaboration with advanced research labs and teaching facilities. The project also includes renovation and expansion of existing facilities to create technology-rich lecture halls and classrooms. Completion is expected by August of 2013.