Industry News

Kaiser Permanente is planning a $200-million replacement hospital and medical office building in Redwood City, Calif. HOK has been selected to design the 212-bed hospital and parking structure with Perkins and Will as the architect for the medical office building. Drawings are expected to reach completion by year-end 2007 with construction to begin in late 2008. The facilities are expected to reach completion by mid-2011.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. is initiating construction on a $3.5-billion wafer fabrication plant at its existing campus in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Slated for completion in the second half of 2008, the facility will house 200,000 sf of cleanroom space for manufacturing 300mm wafers. Additionally, Intel will complete the expansion of its plant in Ireland by the first quarter of 2006. Intel is also planning to construct another plant in Chandler, Ariz., that will produce both 300mm and 45nm wafers. 

The University of California, Berkeley is initiating construction on the new 67,700-sf C.V. Starr Library at the Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies. When completed in 2007, the facility will be the first free-standing building in the United States dedicated to East Asian collections and will house more than 700,000 bound volumes, a rare book collection, a media and digital materials center, reference and periodical reading rooms, study rooms, offices, and a book processing center. The construction cost for the project is $32 million.

Carle Foundation Hospital is working with McCarthy to construct a $44-million expansion of its Urbana, Illinois, facility. The three-part project includes: a complex five-story, 108,000-sf vertical addition to the hospital's North Tower; a 23,000-sf expansion and renovation of the emergency department; and a new three-story, 46,000-sf ancillary building. The North Tower addition will add one floor of medical/surgical beds, one floor of NICU, one pediatric floor, and two OB floors. The expansion was designed by HDR of Omaha.

Winston-Salem University dedicated the $12.1-million Atkinson Science Building in fall of 2005. Construction on the facility began in May 2003 with occupancy in spring of 2005. Housing approximately 51,000 sf of classroom and lab space, a 3,000-sf lecture hall, and a 1,600-sf cafe, the building includes dedicated laboratories for anatomy, chemistry, biotechnique, physiology, immunology, chromatography, physics, and organic chemistry.