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UC System Plans Oakland Headquarters Facility
The University of California is planning to consolidate administrative operations with a new location in Oakland, Calif. Current plans for providing the approximately 400,000 sf the UC system seeks range from leasing existing space to new construction. The planned facility will enable the UC system to consolidate leased space for its administrative Office of the President, now located in 171,000 sf spread throughout four sites in Oakland and one in Berkeley.
NCSU Dedicates College of Veterinary Medicine Research Building
North Carolina State University in Raleigh dedicated its new $35-million College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) Research Building in late April 2005. The 100,000-sf facility is designed for basic and clinical research in veterinary medicine. As the first structure built for the planned Centennial Biomedical Campus, the four-story facility houses 33 laboratories and two BSL-3 infectious disease research labs. The CVM Research Building also accommodates 74 offices and seven conference rooms.
KeyCorp's Tiedeman Campus Receives Green Certification
Financial services company KeyCorp's Tiedeman campus in Brooklyn, Ohio, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a green building, making it the first financial services complex to earn this designation in Ohio. KeyCorp participated in the USGBC's new rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The Tiedeman property, a former brownfield site, is a 750,000-sf technology and operations campus comprised of two buildings and a parking garage.
New Belgium Brewing Builds Wind-Powered Facility
New Belgium Brewing Company has selected Swinerton Builders to construct a 76,000-sf bottling and packaging plant in Fort Collins, Colo. The nation's first wind-powered brewery, the $30-million steel and concrete facility will house an assembly line, cold storage, a warehouse and a shipping dock. Designed by BNIM Architects of Kansas City, Mo., the project is expected to begin construction in early 2006.
UT-Houston Medical School Breaks Ground on New Research Facility
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston broke ground in April 2005 on a new 208,500-sf research facility. The six-story, $78-million project will house four floors of research programs in neurobiology, the molecular biology of human pathogens, structural biology, and physiological genomics/systems biology. The top two floors of the facility will house a new animal care center to replace the one destroyed by Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.