Health Building Uses Nature’s Blueprint

PHOENIX — Construction continues on the city-owned sustainable Health Sciences Education Building in downtown Phoenix, designed to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to health sciences education and research.
 
The 268,000-foot educational facility, located on the 28-acre Phoenix Biomedical Campus, broke ground in May last year and is slated for completion in August 2012.
 
The $129 million facility will be used by the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, the UA College of Pharmacy and the UA Mel and Enid Z

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Arizona a Hot Spot for Cancer Centers

PHOENIX — Construction is under way on the new Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Phoenix — a 131,000-square-foot building that will be located on the two-year-old Banner Gateway Medical Center campus, which already has 76-beds designated for cancer care.
 
Designed by the local office of international architectural firm Cannon Design, the BMAC center is slated to open sometime in 2011. The opening of the new facility will unite one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital systems, Banner Health, with the University of Texas MD Ander

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