Industry News

Westinghouse Electric Company has selected Turner Construction Company to serve as the general contractor for a new $216 million headquarters campus for nuclear power engineering. Sited on 83 acres near Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township, Pa., the three-building, 844,595-sf Class A office facility will seek LEED certification. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2010.

Indiana University’s Simon Hall received “High Honors” in the 2008 R&D Magazine Lab of the Year competition. The new multidisciplinary science building is located on the Bloomington campus and was designed by Flad Architects. The six-story, 140,000-sf project is sited at the intersection of the departments of chemistry, biology, and biochemistry and houses flexible laboratories, technical support areas, and analytical instrument facilities.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to construct the $250 million Human Performance Wing at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The project is part of a $332 million construction program at the base and is slated for completion by year-end 2010 with occupancy expected in 2011.

Colorado State University initiated construction in early 2008 on a $42 million Diagnostic Medicine Center in Fort Collins. Sited south of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, the 90,000-sf facility will be comprised of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory, the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Animal Population Health Institute. Completion is slated for December 2009.

The University of Florida celebrated the topping out of the new UF Biomedical Sciences Building in Gainesville on February 29, 2008. The six-story, 160,000-sf multidisciplinary facility is slated for completion in early 2009.