Industry News

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Mayaguez has plans to break ground in summer 2006 on the $15-million Bioprocess Institute, which will provide both capacity for  monoclonal bioprocess research as well as perform pilot-scale production. At UPR's Rio Piedras campus, the $85-million, 150,000-sf Molecular Sciences Complex will break ground later in 2006.

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is nearing completion of construction on it's new $145.4-million Center for Health and Healing. The 400,000-sf, mixed-use facility is engineered for a LEED Platinum rating.  OHSU expects to save $700,000 annually in energy and operating costs thanks to the building's "green" features.

Manpower has selected Gilbane Building Company as construction manager for its new 280,000-sf world headquarters facility in downtown Milwaukee. The $50-million project includes the headquarters building, the extension of the Milwaukee RiverWalk, and a 1,260-stall, seven-story parking structure conneceted to the building via a skywalk.

Florida Gulf Coast University has selected Kraft Construction of Naples, Fl., to build the U.A. Whittaker School of Engineering. Groundbreaking for the three-story facility is scheduled for fall 2006. It will provide 50,000- to 70,000 sf of space for offices, lab space, and classrooms. Construction of the $15-million building should begin in early 2007 with completion in 2008.

The new $97-miillion National Security Sciences building has opened at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  The design-build project contains 680 offices, a 600-person lecture hall, and administrative and staff facilities. Work in the new facility will focus on solutions to national security issues.