Michigan State University’s College of Nursing will break ground in summer of 2010 on the Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research in East Lansing. Supported by $7.45 million in stimulus funding, the three-story, $17.6 million facility will support collaborative biomedical research and teaching. Occupancy is expected by early 2012.
The University of Warwick will build the £17 million Physics and Chemistry Research Laboratory in Coventry in the United Kingdom. Slated for completion in autumn of 2011, the 4,795-sm facility will feature an advanced microscopy suite and the Warwick Centre for Analytical Science. BAM Construction of Balsall Common will design and construct the building.
Midwest Research Institute has attained LEED Gold sustainable design certification for the renovation of its headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. The 80,000-sf project included renovation of two wings in the existing 250,000-sf facility. The renovation was designed by PGAV Architects with J.E. Dunn Construction Group as general contractor.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School was awarded $15 million by the National Institutes of Health in March of 2010 to support laboratory renovations. The award will enable UMDNJ-NJMS to conduct advanced biomedical research in updated lab facilities.
Med Fusion, a partnership of Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, Pathologists Biomedical Laboratories, and US Oncology, will begin offering integrated translational research services in spring of 2010. The company is headquartered in Dallas and has leased a 172,000-sf facility in Lewisville. Med Fusion will provide integrated pharmaceutical development and clinical trial services.
Sanford Health is consolidating its medical research operations in Sioux Falls, S.D. The facility will open by June of 2010 upon completion of renovations to the existing structure, a former computer parts manufacturing plant. Housing laboratories and offices in two joined towers, the 300,000-sf complex will include a vivarium for animal research.
The University of Notre Dame completed construction on the $70 million Stinson-Remick Hall in January of 2010. The 142,000-sf facility is located in Notre Dame, Ind., and houses a nanotechnology research center, an energy center, an 11,800-sf semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom, and an undergraduate learning center. Research Facilities Design (RFD) of San Diego provided laboratory programming and design services for the facility. The project architect was BSA LifeStructures of Indianapolis, Ind.
King Abdullah Petroleum Study and Research Center is constructing a 3.8 million-sf mixed-use research complex Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project is expected to attain LEED Platinum sustainable design certification and is slated for completion in 2011. The KAPSARC development will include petroleum research facilities as well as residential, community, and commercial space. HOK is the architect for the project with Syska Hennessy as engineer and Aramco as general contractor.
The University of Connecticut Health Center was awarded $7.9 million in March of 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to renovate the Center for Laboratory Animal Care in Farmington. The project will provide modernized laboratories and care facilities for animal science instruction and research.
Princeton University began construction in March of 2010 on the Neuroscience and Psychology Buildings in Princeton, N.J. Designed by José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto of Madrid, the $180 million complex will house the interdisciplinary Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology. The 248,000-gsf project will provide research facilities, faculty offices, conference rooms, and instructional space. A joint-use facility at the lowest level of the neuroscience facility will house advanced imaging and microscopy labs including three fMRI suites.
Aurora College broke ground in March of 2010 on the $11 million Western Arctic Research Institute in Inuvik, Canada. Located in the Northwest Territories two degrees above the Arctic Circle, the sustainably-designed facility will house three flexible laboratories that can be adapted into classrooms, conference rooms, space for visiting researchers, and a workshop. Completion is expected in March of 2011.
Pennsylvania State University was awarded $14.8 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to construct a biocontainment laboratory in University Park. The 20,000-sf laboratory will support research on infectious diseases and pathogens. Construction will begin in early 2011 and reach completion within two years.
MEMSIC completed construction in March of 2010 on its new R&D and manufacturing complex in Wuxi, China. The 224,000-sf project is comprised of a 130,000-sf manufacturing facility and a 94,000-sf R&D center. MEMSIC is a MEMS sensing solution provider.
The Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory broke ground on a BSL-3 laboratory in Amarillo in March of 2010. The addition and renovation project is slated for completion in early 2011. The facility will support rapid response to agricultural or zoonotic disease threats.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded nearly $15 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to renovate laboratories at its main campus in Baltimore. The project will created updated labs in the 45-year old Hume Wing. Construction will begin in late summer of 2011.
