Boston Univ. Medical Center, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. Budget: $ 139 million. Size: 223, 000 ft2 . Boston Univ. Medical Center, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. Design: CUH2A/SmithCarter. Click to enlarge. Project team: CUH2A Inc., Princeton, N.J./Atlanta, and SmithCarter Architects & Engineers Inc., Atlanta (architecture, engineering); McCarthy Building Cos. Inc., St. Louis, and Turner Construction (joint venture construction team). Description: National Emerging Infectious Diseases facility, one of two national facilities funded by the NIH/NIAID biodefense initiative, is located in Biosquare biomedical research park area of the Boston Univ. Medical Center in Boston’s south end. The facility contains a state-of-the-art BSL-4 laboratory and BSL-3 and BSL-2 labs, along with a vivarium, insectary facilities, research support space, and a clinical area. The facility will serve as a national resource for efforts in conducting clinical and laboratory research and testing in support of the NIAID biodefense agenda. Goals include development of diagnostic tests, drugs, vaccines, and treatments for emerging and re-emerging diseases. Contact: Bud Guest, McCarthy, 314-968-3300. Univ. of Rhode Island, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Kingston. Budget: $60 million. Univ. of Rhode Island, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Kingston. Design: Payette Associates. Click to enlarge. Size: 140,000 ft2 Project team: Payette Associates, Boston (architecture); Vanderweil Engineers, Boston (MEP engineering); Pare Engineering, Lincoln, R.I. (civil engineering); Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Waltham, Mass. (structural engineering); Carol R. Johnson Associates, Boston (landscape architecture); Gilbane Building Co., Providence, R.I. (construction management). Completion date: 2009. Description: The largest academic project in the university’s history, the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences will house classrooms, labs, lab support, faculty offices, business incubator space, and a 300-seat auditorium, all in support of programs in biotechnology and biological sciences. LEED certification is being targeted, with a design including energy-efficient HVAC systems and a green roof. Funding is from a $50 million state bond issue and $10 million in private donations, including $1 million from biotech firm Amgen. The new building anchors the campus’s North District, which includes planned future construction for URI’s pharmacy, nursing, and chemistry programs. Contact: Todd McLeish, Univ. of Rhode Island, 401-874-2116. McCrone Group Inc., analytical facility, Westmont, Ill. McCrone Group Inc., analytical facility, Westmont, Ill. Design: The Environments Group. Photo courtesy of McCrone Group.Click to enlarge. Budget: $11 million Size: 40,000 ft2 (addition to existing 26,000- ft2 headquarters facility). Project team : The Environments Group, Chicago (architecture, interiors); Knightsbridge Design & Build LLC, Naperville, IL (general contractor). Completion date: 1Q2007. Description: Expansion addressed rapidly growing demands for microanalysis. Addition allows expansion of analytical services, microscopy learning, and instrumentation for industrial, government, and pharmaceutical clients. Materials analysis capabilities allow the firm to address problems including manufacturing failures, raw materials, trace evidence, electronics components, and pharma/biotech development. Contact: Charles A. Zona, McCrone Group, 630-887-7100. Pall Corp., Life Sciences Center, Bangalore, India. Budget: n.a. Pall Corp., Life Sciences Center, Bangalore, India. Photo courtesy of Pall Corp.Click to enlarge. Size:20,000-ft2 Project team: n.a. Completion date:2Q2007 Description: Pall, a provider of solutions in the fields of filtration, separation, and purification, has opened a service facility in India to address the country’s burgeoning needs in the life sciences market, including biopharmaceutical research, development, and production. The facility includes a proteomics lab to help speed the drug discovery process, as well as a validation lab and a training facility. Pall anticipates setting up an additional Life Sciences Center in Pune in the near future. Contact: Richard Jameson for Pall Corp., 212-529-4500. Rice Univ., Collaborative Research Center, Houston. Budget: $200 million. Size: 477,000 ft2 Project team:Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco (executive architect, core and shell); FKP Architects, Houston (associate architect, core and shell); Perkins + Will, La Jolla, Calif. (lab consultant); Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineering LLC, Watertown, Mass. (MEP engineering); Walter P. Moore and Associates Inc., Houston (civil engineering); Haynes Whaley, Houston (structural engineering); Ulrich Engineers Inc., Houston (geotechnical consultant); Sextant Group Inc., Pittsburgh/Tempe, Ariz. (IT consultant); Michael Graves and Associates, Princeton, N.J. (master plan architect); Linbeck, Houston (general contractor). Completion date: 2009. Description: Ten-story tower will include eight floors of research labs, plus a 280-seat auditorium, a 100-seat seminar room, classrooms, a viviarium, underground parking, and retail space. Users will include Rice and its affiliated institutions in the Texas Medical Center, including Baylor College of Medicine, the Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, and the Methodist Hospital Research Institute. The emphasis is on bioscience, biotechnology, bioengineering, and clinical and translational research and education. Phase 1 includes construction of one research wing and a cylindrical hub. Contact: Carrie Byles, SOM, 415-981-1555, or Cynthia Walston, FKP, 713-821-9258. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Upton, N.Y. Budget: $81 million. Size: 94,500 ft2. Project team: HDR Inc., Alexandria, Va. (architecture, engineering); VitaTech Engineering, Springfield, Va. (MEI/RFI shielding consulting); Colin Gordon & Associates, San Bruno, Calif. (vibration/acoustical engineering); E.W. Howell Co. Inc., Woodbury, N.Y. (contractor). Completion date: Spring 2007. Description: The CNF is one of five new DoE Nanoscale Science Research Centers, and is expected to attract ~300 researchers annually from academia, industry, and other research organizations. The 10-acre site includes six lab clusters providing access to beamlines at the adjacent National Synchrotron Light Source. Building components are organized around a central atrium with views into the labs. A microscopy suite encompasses ultra-quiet spaces with labs featuring temperature control within 60.1°C. The complex also includes two stories of offices and training and conference facilities. Contact: Katie Sosnowchik, HDR, 402-926-7080.