Industry News

GlaxoSmithKline has opened its new 220,000-sf manufacturing facility in Zebulon, N.C. The facility will employ 250 workers engaged in manufacturing inhaled respiratory products, including a device called the Advair Diskus.

Embrex, a Durham-based agricultural biotechnology company, is building a new $11.6 million, 30,000-sf poultry vaccine production facility near Laurinburg, N.C.

Applied Biosystems has completed the first phase of its planned 960,000-sf, 80-acre campus in Pleasanton, Calif. Two of the seven buildings have been completed, providing 258,000-sf of lab and office space. A two-story building accommodates offices, cleanrooms, and research laboratories with custom-designed and fabricated chemical distribution systems.

The Community School of Music and Arts is nearing completion of its $1.6 million, 25,000-sf campus in Mountain View. The two-story facility, which houses classrooms, a concert hall and practice rooms, includes significant architectural accommodations for state-of-the-art acoustics. The public grand opening of the campus is scheduled for March 18, 2004.

PeopleSoft completed the 185,000-sf Building G at its Pleasanton, Calif., headquarters in July of 2003. The project was designed by architects Gensler and RMW and built by contractor San Jose Construction Company. The project was completed after fifteen months of construction.