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News from July 2002

University of Chicago Builds Graduate School of Business Campus

DATELINE Chicago
The University of Chicago has awarded the Chicago office of Turner Construction Company the contract to build a new $125-million campus for the Graduate School of Business. Turner is the construction manager at risk for the project, which is sch...
 7.29.02



DPT Labs Builds for R&D in San Antonio

DATELINE San Antonio
DPT Laboratories Ltd. of San Antonio, a developer, manufacturer, packager and distributer of over-the-counter and prescription skin-care products for pharmaceutical companies, is in the process of completing a $5-million, 32,000-sf R&a...
 7.26.02



FDIC Expands Arlington Campus

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) has chosen Ai, a District of Columbia architectural firm, to design a 422,000-sf office expansion at its 370,000-sf Virginia Square campus. The $111-million project will more than double the FDIC's...
 7.26.02



Ohlone College Plans Newark Center Campus

DATELINE Newark, Calif.
Ohlone College, a Fremont, Calif., community college, is planning to develop a second campus on 81 acres recently purchased in Newark. Dubbed the Newark Center, the campus will house state-of-the-art health, biology, chemistry and technolog...
 7.26.02



NCSU Breaks Ground on Nanotechnology Facility

DATELINE Raleigh, N.C.
North Carolina State University will soon break ground on a new nanotechnology research facility on its Centennial Campus in Raleigh. The $24-million, 80,000-sf Partners III building is expected to open in July of 2004. ...
 7.26.02



Internap Relocates Headquarters to Atlanta

DATELINE Atlanta
Internet services company Internap Network Services Corp. will begin relocation of its Seattle corporate headquarters to Atlanta in October with completion expected by the end of 2002. Seattle will continue to house the company's network operations c...
 7.26.02



Genencor to Build Clinical Manufacturing Facility in Rochester

DATELINE Rochester, N.Y.
Genencor of Palo Alto, Calif.,  will build a 22,000-sf clinical manufacturing facility in Rochester, N.Y., home of the company's global bioproducts business and manufacturing headquarters and a pilot-scale manufacturing plant. The new facility w...
 7.26.02



University of Texas Plans Austin Pharmacy Building Renovation

DATELINE Austin, Texas
The University of Texas in Austin recently awarded Watkins Hamilton Ross Architects (WHR) the contract to provide professional services for Phase One of the Pharmacy Building renovation. The 60,000-gsf Pharmacy Building was originally constructe...
 7.26.02



State University at Albany to Build R&D Center

DATELINE Albany, N.Y.
The State University at Albany's Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics will expand with a massive $400-million research and development center. Created by an international consortium of computer chip manufacturers, the site will employ 250 research...
 7.26.02



Union Station Data Center Renovated for Government

DATELINE Washington
Union Station Telecom Center, currently a tech-driven data center, will be renovated and repositioned to attract a government tenant. The 442,000-sf data center, a 51-year-old former warehouse and department store distribution center, ...
 7.26.02



Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Plans Pathogen Facility

DATELINE Livermore, Calif.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is proposing to build a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) pathogen research facility for the study of hazardous airborne diseases. Construction costs for the three-lab, 1,100-sf building could reach $1.5-million. Completion ...
 7.25.02



Cytec Industries Renovates Stamford Lab

DATELINE Stamford, Conn.
Cytec Industries has selected Flad & Associates to design a renovation to their facility in Stamford, Ct. Flad is providing full architectural design services including programming, planning and structural engineering design for the renovation of 240,...
 7.23.02



University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Breaks Ground on Renovation

DATELINE Dallas
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas recently broke ground on a 24,000-sf renovation of laboratory and office space for the University's biochemistry department. Architect for the project is Omniplan; the contractor is M...
 7.22.02



SJSU Develops Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
San Jose State University (SJSU) will open the doors of the new $177.5-million Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on August 1, 2003. The 475,000-sf facility, the first public/private partnership in the nation between a university and a city, will fea...
 7.19.02



Air Force Office of Scientific Research Renovates Facilities

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has recently contracted the Korth Cos. of the District of Columbia to renovate the 58,000-sf interior of the Office of Scientific Research and the Defense Office of Hearings & Appeals in Arlington, Va. ...
 7.19.02



Bay Area BioScience Center Doubles San Francisco Facilities

DATELINE San Francisco
Bay Area BioScience Center (BABC) is expanding from 880 sf to 1,550 sf with a move from downtown San Francisco to a new South San Francisco location. With 450 Northern California members, BABC is also planning to open a second East Bay office in...
 7.19.02



Delta Search Builds MIT Supercomputer Lab

DATELINE Boston
Delta Search Labs is building a $300-million supercomputer lab in 50,000-sf of leased space at 700 Technology Square at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expanding its 15,000-sf Kendall Square supercomputer operations, the new facility will ...
 7.19.02



Washingtonian South Offices Built for Life Science

DATELINE Gaithersburg, Md.
Orix Real Estate Equities of Chicago is planning to build Washingtonian South, a two-building, 350,000-sf Class A office complex and parking structure in Gaithersburg. Located on a 7.4-acre site in the mixed-use Washingtonian Center business park, the dev...
 7.19.02



Alamo Community College District Opens Advanced Technology Center

DATELINE San Antonio
Alamo Community College District recently celebrated the opening of its Advanced Technology Center (ATC). The workforce training center, sited at KellyUSA, features video teleconferencing capabilities to connect multiple classrooms with company ...
 7.19.02



Kennesaw State University Develops Student Housing

DATELINE Kennesaw, Ga.
Kennesaw State University is developing University Place, comprised of 11 three-story residential buildings and a 1,500-car parking deck. The $61-million, 700-bed project is a public-private venture built not with taxpayer dollars but with tax-exempt bond...
 7.19.02



RTI International Plans RTP Expansion

DATELINE Research Triangle Park, N.C.
RTI International (RTI), formerly Research Triangle Institute, plans to double its 750,000 sf of lab and office space in Research Triangle Park as part of a 15-year facilities plan. RTI is also planning to expand its European and South Afri...
 7.19.02



Bank One Contracts EMCOR for Facilities Management

DATELINE Norwalk, Ct.
Bank One has entered into a three-year agreement with EMCOR Group to provide comprehensive facilities and maintenance services for all of Bank One's locations nationwide. EMCOR will provide comprehensive facilities services, including operations, maintena...
 7.17.02



Berklee College of Music Opens Business Center

DATELINE Boston
Berklee College of Music celebrated the grand opening of its business center on July 17. The $1.1-million, 11,500-sf center consists of administrative support offices and new mail and copy centers in a two-level mixed-use urban facility. Designed by Mille...
 7.17.02



Ford Builds Green Premier Automotive Group Headquarters

DATELINE Irvine, Calif.
The program for Ford Motor Company's Premier Automotive Group Headquarters Facility consists of a five-story 250,000-sf office tower, 30,000-sf design center, and a four-story parking structure. The facility consolidates the North American Headq...
 7.16.02



Idec Plans Biotech Factory

DATELINE Oceanside, Calif.
Idec Pharmaceuticals is planning a five-building, 470,000-sf biotech factory in Oceanside. The $500-million complex, with a 90,000-liter biologic manufacturing capacity, will be sited on 60 acres and will be comparable in size to Disne...
 7.15.02



Sibley Memorial Hospital Plans Cancer Center

DATELINE Washington
Sibley Memorial Hospital, a 340-bed, full-service hospital in Northwest D.C., is planning a new $10-million cancer center expected to open in fall of this year. Significantly increasing radiation therapy treatment capacity, the new single s...
 7.12.02



UTSA Develops Biotech Research Facility

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will partner with Brooks Air Force Base to create the UTSA Center for Excellence in Bioprocessing and Biotechnology. The center will provide vaccine-related research training to military and UTSA undergraduate...
 7.12.02



American University Completes Cairo Campus Design

DATELINE Cairo, Egypt
American University has completed the schematic design phase of its new 260-acre campus sited 20 miles east of Cairo. The $250-million project was designed by Sasaki/CDC, a joint venture of Watertown-based Sasaki Associates and Cairo-based Abdelhalim-CDC ...
 7.12.02



Computer Sciences Corp. Halts Regional Headquarters Construction

DATELINE Irving, Texas
Computer Sciences Corp. has halted construction plans for its 194,000-sf, $20-million Irving, Texas, headquarters, and may consider instead a lease of existing space. The technical services firm, based in El Segundo, Calif., hopes to consol...
 7.12.02



Eli Lilly Builds Prince William Manufacturing Plant

DATELINE Prince William County, Va.
Eli Lilly and Co. has selected the Raleigh office of Suitt Construction Co. to provide construction management services, including site development and utility installation, for a $425-million insulin manufacturing facility in Prince William County, ...
 7.12.02



Burger King Completes Headquarters

DATELINE Miami
Burger King, based in Miami, is in the process of occupying its newly completed 8-story, 160,000-sf Waterford headquarters, a replacement of the company's southern Miami-Dade County headquarters. The burger giant has also acquired 40,000 sf of o...
 7.12.02



Geomet Technologies Opens Biological Testing Facility

DATELINE Gaithersburg, Md.
Geomet Technologies has opened a 6,000-sf facility in Gaithersburg, Md., comprised of administrative space, three laboratories, and cold storage facilities. The facility will enable Geomet, a subsidiary of the Springfield-based homeland defense company Ve...
 7.12.02



AIM Builds Research Conference Center

DATELINE Morgan Hill, Calif.
The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is planning a new conference center on a 190-acre site in Morgan Hill, Calif. Funded by a $5-million grant from the National Science Foundation, the AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) will include the use of ...
 7.12.02



Seminole Community College To Build High-Tech Training Facility

DATELINE Orlando, Fla.
Seminole Community College plans to build a three-story, 90,000-sf high-tech training facility on a $1.5-million, 6.1-acre site donated to the college by the Pizzuti Cos. Located in the Heathrow International Business Center, the facility will p...
 7.12.02



Convergys Plans Cincinnati Campus

DATELINE Cincinnati
As proposed by the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, Convergys is considering a 1 million-sf "urban campus" headquarters on two blocks of The Banks riverfront development. Most of the planned office space would be ...
 7.12.02



ManuLife Designs Green Headquarters

DATELINE Boston
Toronto-based ManuLife Financial Corp. will build a new 470,000-sf "green" headquarters in South Boston. The 14-story building will be one of the first buildings in the nation utilizing a double-skin exterior curtainwall facade. Enabling airflow, the...
 7.12.02



Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Plans Cancer Research Facility

DATELINE Baltimore
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has contracted the D.C. office of URS as technical consultant for a new cancer research building. The original cancer research building was also designed by URS, an architectural and engineering services fir...
 7.12.02



UIW Expands Community Center

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of the Incarnate Word broke ground earlier this week on a 3,360-sf expansion of the 1,200-sf Presa Community Center. Staffed with UIW faculty and students, the expansion will house a permanent office and resource center providing tutor...
 7.12.02



UNC Hospitals Plans Heart Center

DATELINE Chapel Hill, N.C.
UNC Hospitals is planning to build a $150- to $200-million heart center in five to seven years. The building will consolidate cardiac care services including cardiology, cardiac testing, vascular services, and cardio-thoracic and pulmonary clinics. These ...
 7.12.02



SouthTrust Bank Builds Atlanta Office

DATELINE Atlanta
SouthTrust Bank will occupy a new main office building in the Atlantic Station development in Midtown Atlanta to be constructed by 2004. Developed by AIG Global Real Estate Investment, the building will house 300 banking and administrative emplo...
 7.12.02



California Academy of Sciences Builds Green Museum and Research Center

DATELINE San Francisco
The California Academy of Sciences is planning a state-of-the-art "green" museum and research center in San Francisco. The center will consolidate and replace Golden Gate Park facilities including the Morrison Planetarium, the Steinhart Aquarium, and...
 7.11.02



MIT Plans Capital Improvement Program

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded Parsons Brinckerhoff the contract to provide program management support for a capital improvement program with an annual budget of approximately $75 million. Working in concert with the Design and Co...
 7.10.02



Naugatuck Valley Community College Plans Technology Center

DATELINE Waterbury, Ct.
Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury has selected Amenta/Emma Architects of Hartford, Ct., to design a new technology classroom building for academic and community use. The $31-million project, which is being administered by the State Depa...
 7.8.02



Sara Lee Expands Winston-Salem Facility

DATELINE Winston-Salem, N.C.
Sara Lee Corp. has selected Little & Associates of Charlotte, N.C., to provide architectural, land planning, and engineering services for an expansion of the manufacturer's Oak Summit campus. The $35-million expansion includes...
 7.5.02



EmeryStation North Renovated for Labs

DATELINE Emeryville, Calif.
The fourth floor of EmeryStation North is being converted by Wareham Development into laboratory facilities where 30,000 sf of the Emeryville building will house flexible lab and office space. Initial construction costs for the facility ranged from $...
 7.5.02



MIT Develops Stata Academic Complex

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has selected Boston-based Tishman Construction Corp. to provide construction quality/cost management services for the 713,000-sf Ray and Maria Stata Center. The academic complex, designed by Frank O. Gehry, is located...
 7.5.02



Pixar Plans Emeryville Campus Phase Two

DATELINE Emeryville, Calif.
Pixar, a computer animation company, plans to develop the second phase of its corporate campus on 14 company-owned acres in Emeryville. Within the next 60 to 90 days, a preliminary plan for the expansion will be submitted to the City Planning Department, ...
 7.5.02



Regional Medical Center San Jose Plans Hospital

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
Regional Medical Center San Jose is designing a new hospital at its 30-acre site in East San Jose. Plans for the new hospital, developed by HCA Inc., will be submitted to the state within a year, with anticipated approval the following...
 7.5.02



Minute Maid Builds Auburndale Plant

DATELINE Auburndale, Fla.
The Minute Maid Co., an operating division of The Coca-Cola Co. of Atlanta, is planning to build a noncarbonated beverage production plant in Auburndale.  The 620,000-sf facility will cost $130-million for construction and equipment. I...
 7.5.02



KIO Networks Designs Collocation Data Center

DATELINE Mexico City
KIO Networks is planning a collocation data center in Mexico City. Designed by EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a firm with offices in Boston, the facility will contain data storage equipment for multiple companies. The data center will be housed in ...
 7.5.02



UNC Hospitals Plans Chapel Hill Cancer Tower

DATELINE Chapel Hill, N.C.
UNC Hospitals is planning to replace the Gravely Building, home of the North Carolina Clinical Cancer Center, with a new $140-million cancer tower in Chapel Hill. The 300,000-sf facility will provide complete outpatient cancer care, housing...
 7.5.02



MBA Polymers Plans Commercial Plant

DATELINE Richmond, Calif.
MBA Polymers, a Richmond plastics recycling company, is raising $3-million in VC funding to design a new commercial plant. The facility will cost approximately $20-million to build. Due to rising energy costs for daytime operations, the plant may not be l...
 7.5.02



Duke University Medical Center Renovates Cancer Center

DATELINE Durham, N.C.
Duke University Medical Center in Durham plans to increase outpatient treatment capacity from 80 to 125 patients per day with a $3.5-million renovation of its comprehensive cancer center. Duke will add 10 treatment stations and 27 waiting room chairs...
 7.5.02



UCSF Parnassus Develops Seismic Replacement Lab

DATELINE San Francisco, Calif.
The University of California San Francisco-Parnassus is planning a new $39.7-million seismic replacement laboratory. McCarthy will build the five-story, 86,000-sf facility, which will be completely seismic compliant. Included in the structu...
 7.1.02



Hoag Memorial Plans Women's Pavilion

DATELINE Newport Beach, Calif.
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian will work with McCarthy to begin building the new East Tower Women's Pavilion in fall of 2002. The cornerstone of a 10-year facility master plan, the 320,000-sf, 7-story tower and cafe will house surgical services for m...
 7.1.02



Cornell Builds Nanotechnology Facility

DATELINE Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University has selected McCarthy to provide construction management and general contracting services on Duffield Hall, a nanotechnology research and teaching facility now under construction. The $42-million project, a joint venture with Welliver M...
 7.1.02



Children's Hospital of San Diego To Generate Its Own Power

DATELINE San Diego
Children’s Hospital of San Diego is installing a 3.4-megawatt co-generation system that will supply approximately 98% of the 200-bed hospital’s power. The system, funded in part by a $2-million loan from the California Energy Commission, ...
 7.1.02



Sigma-Aldrich Completes Science and Technology Center

DATELINE St. Louis, Mo.
Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, working with project manager and builder McCarthy, has completed its new $55-million Life Science and High Technology Center. The biotech project included construction of a 145,000-sf lab building to house 220 life scientis...
 7.1.02



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