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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Constructs New Headquarters
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will begin construction in late summer 2005 on its new 14-story headquarters tower sited on 15.7 acres in in Kansas City. Opening in spring 2008, the $280-million facility will accommodate 26,000-sf on each office floor. The second floor will house a conference center, employee dining room, and a training area. The architects for the project are New York-based Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and the Kansas City office of Ellerbe Becket. The construction manager is Kansas City-based J.E.
Texas A&M Constructs Marine Science Facility
Texas A&M University is building the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at its Corpus Christi campus. The new 56,000-sf marine science research facility will focus on teaching, research, and service related to the Gulf of Mexico with special emphasis on the Texas Gulf Coast. The facility will include an education outreach center, research and teaching laboratories, a seminar room, classrooms, and a conference facility. WHR is working in association with Richter Architects on the design of this facility.
UC Davis Completes Activities & Recreation Center
University of California Davis has recently completed the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) in Davis, Calif. Constructed by McCarthy, the facility combines a variety of different uses, supporting the latest trends in student activity and recreation. Designed by Cannon Design of Westwood, Calif., the 155,000-sf ARC houses a conference center, student union, fitness club, and other amenities. Total construction cost for the project was approximately $31 million.
Kaiser Permanente Builds Downey Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente is engaged is construction of the new 1,002,528-sf Downey Medical Center and parking structure in Downey, Calif. Constructed by McCarthy, the facility will replace the hospital portion of the existing Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, which will be converted to an outpatient facility. Being built in accordance with state seismic requirements, the 352-bed, full-service hospital will include inpatient and outpatient services and will house 82 departments as well as an 85-room emergency department.
Rice University Completes Nanofabrication/Cleanroom Lab
Rice University recently completed a 3,000-sf renovation/remodeling project on its Houston campus to create the Nanofabrication/Cleanroom Lab Facility in Abercrombie Hall. Constructed by McCarthy, the new facility is comprised of Class 100 and Class 1000 cleanrooms, office, and lab support space. It will provide researchers with the clean-air environment needed to study minute mechanisms the size of only a few atoms.