Industry News

Federal Express has selected Birmingham-based Doster Construction to construct a $4-million expansion of its Central Ground Distribution Center in Nashville, Tenn. The project consists of a new recruiting and guardhouse building, an additional maintenance building, a service garage, and expanded loading areas.

The University of Missouri-Columbia is constructing the $16.3-million Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The project includes renovation of the 29,103-sf Sociology building and the 18,030-sf Walter William hall and construction of a four-story building connecting the two facilities. The institute will house classrooms, laboratory space, a TV studio, and editing workstations. The project contractors are Kozeny-Wagner of St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo.-based Sircal Contracting.

Harvard Medical School is working with Boston-based architect Miller Dyer Spears to design the Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center in Boston. The sustainable facility is expected to attain a LEEDTM Silver rating and will feature a green roof and a skylit atrium bringing daylight into new and existing interiors. The project, to be finished in late 2006, will have a state-of-the-art tiered classroom, a graduate student center, reading rooms, lounge space and faculty offices.  

Stony Brook University is planning to develop a 246-acre research and development park on a site straddling Stony Brook and St. James, N.Y. Groundbreaking for a 100,000-sf Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) is expected in spring of 2006.

Saint Louis University will construct a $67-million research building for the School of Medicine on its midtown Saint Louis campus. The 206,000-sf facility will have a ten-story tower on the north end and will be connected at the south end to the School of Medicine by a covered walkway. The first floor will be comprised of clinical core lab space, with flexible, modular research laboratories and offices on floors two through eight.