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.
Stanford University will initiate $75 million in construction work to accommodate a new laser that will be housed at the Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, Calif. The project team of the San Jose office of Turner Construction and engineers Hatch Mott MacDonald are expected to begin work in early 2006. The laser is slated for operational completion in early spring 2009. The cost of new equipment and modifications to existing equipment needed to build the laser itself is over $300 million.
The University of Kentucky will complete the $17-million Center for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology on the 735-acre Coldstream Research Campus in Lexington in February of 2006. The center is one of two in the nation approved by the FDA to manufacture small drug batches for human trials. Additionally, private developer Kale Roscoe of Michigan is planning to construct two five-story buildings housing offices and labs at the research park.
Construction began in early July 2005 on a new $6.6-million facility for New Mexico's Sevilleta Research and Education Center.
Mercer University is planning to construct a new $14-million science and engineering building on its Macon campus. Sited next to the Mercer School of Medicine, the two-story, 52,000-sf facility will house a 150-seat auditorium, a materials-testing system, laboratories, specialized classrooms, and small rooms for student design and research projects. The facility will enable Mercer to support the nearby Warner Robins Air Logistics Center with skilled engineers and scientists.
Northwest Missouri State University (NMSU) is developing the 140,000-sf Missouri Center of Excellence for Plant Biologics in Maryville, Mo. The $30-million on-campus facility will house industry tenants as well as academic researchers. The facility is comprised of two major centers, the Graduate Applied Research Center and the Plant Biologics Incubator.
The University of Cambridge is constructing the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) in Cambridge, UK. Designed by TP Bennett of London, the new facility will provide over 4,800 square-meters of research and laboratory space for the University's Department of Engineering's Electrical Division. Housing a 760-square-meter cleanroom and a central atrium, the center will be built by Marriott Construction.
Team Specialty Products (TSP), a developer and manufacturer of mechanical and electical products for government research and development clients, broke ground in June, 2005 on a 22,000-sf addition to its existing 15,000-sf facility in Albuquerque. Located in the Sandia Science & Technology Park near Kirtland Air Force Base, the expansion will enable TSP to expand its work force from 64 to 90 employees. The addition was designed by architect Alexander Harris, with Gerald Martin as general contractor.
Schering-Plough Corp. is consolidating biopharma research operations in Palo Alto, Calif. Subsidiary Canji Inc. will be relocated to merge with Schering-Plough's DNAX Research Institute to create an integrated company called Schering-Plough Biopharma. The 68,000-sf facility, where DNAX is located, will be fully operational by the third quarter of 2005. Schering-Plough Biopharma will focus primarily on biologics research including monoclonal antibodies and therapeutic proteins.
Broomfield-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is planning to expand with 105,000 sf in new construction located adjacent to its existing facility in Boulder, Colo. Designed by RNL of Denver, the facility will include cleanrooms, testing facilities, and office space.
Research Triangle Institute International (RTI) began construction in February 2005 on its new 78,000-sf science and engineering building in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Designed by the Washington, D.C., office of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, the $20 million facility will be constructed by Clancy & Theys of Raleigh, N.C. Stantec is the lead project engineer. Completion is expected in summer 2006.
United Space Alliance, the prime contractor for NASA's space shuttle program's daily operations, has awarded L&M Technologies of Albuquerque a contract valued at $102 million to support NASA facilities in Houston, Huntsville, Ala., and Titusville, Fla. The subcontractor for the six-year contract, which includes hard infrastructure support such as utility management, procurement, and operations, is CH2M Hill. United Space Alliance is owned by The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Boston University Medical Center has received final approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority for its 410,000-sf BioSquare Phase II project in Boston. Funded by a $128 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the project will include a BSL-4 research laboratory and a 1,400-space parking garage. The facility will be part of a national network of laboratories dedicated to countering bioterror agents by developing drugs, treatments, and vaccines.
Ground has been broken on the University of California at Berkeley 's $117.5 million, seven-story CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) facility. The 140,000-sf building will include a large, secure computing center with massive storage capabilities on the two basement floors. The first above-ground floor will house classrooms, with reconfigurable laboratories on floors two through five.
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has retained The Stubbins Associates and Philadelphia-based Kling to provide architecture and engineering design services for The Cleveland Center for Structural Biology (CCSB) and The Wright Fuel Cell Group facility. The CCSB will house one of only four 900 MHz NMR spectrometers in the country. Once completed, the one-story, 18,500-sf facility will house both CCSB's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility and the Advancement Power Institute's Fuel Cell Laboratory.
