The works undertaken by the Company include public facilities, office buildings, airports, hotels, science and education facilities, sports facilities, residential buildings, hospitals, embassies, industrial and military works.

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Long gone are the days of spartan dormitories and cold showers kids in the private sector now have fabulous science labs and sports facilities, and access to a huge range of subjects and activities.

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One such study, funded by the National Science Foundation, was conducted in senior residential facilities near Indiana's Purdue University.

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And it has treated science well, spending on both high-quality facilities and the research that is done in them.

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West Cheshire College, which runs Vauxhall Ellesmere Port's apprentice programme, has opened a new science and technology campus in Chester with specialist teaching facilities.

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In addition to the bike paths and sandy beaches, the Cape Cod village offers a host of internationally acclaimed facilities, among them the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, the National Academy of Sciences conference center and the Marine Biological Lab.

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And there are some wonderful research facilities in our own University of Illinois system that have done a lot to advance the science on this.

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There will also be new teaching and research facilities for the university's engineering, business and economics, maths, and computer science departments as well as student residential accommodation.

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