Industry News

Stanford University Medical School is planning to create the Biotech Research Center for Children's Health with $700,000 in funding received from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has selected Dietz Construction to build-out its new 650,000-sf headquarters facility at Station Place in Washington, D.C. Interior construction is slated to begin in fall of 2003 and reach completion in November 2004.

Ground was broken on October 10, 2003 on Charleston Southern University’s new $11.3 million science building, an undergraduate teaching and multi-disciplinary research laboratory facility. The two-story, 54,000-sf building is scheduled for occupancy in January 2005. Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta is the project architect and programmer. The firm has also been commissioned to renovate CSU’s Jones/Ashby Hall, which currently houses biology and chemistry labs.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America has selected SSOE Inc. of Toledo, Ohio, and Marmon Mok LLP of San Antonio to provide architectural and engineering services for its new $800 million manufacturing plant in San Antonio.

Austin Community College (ACC) dedicated its new $19 million Health Science Building on October 4, 2003. Sited on the college's Eastview campus, the 82,000-sf facility houses a dental hygiene clinic, teaching space for the dental technology program, a nursing laboratory, and classrooms. The $11 million second expansion phase will comprise 60,000 sf and is slated for completion by year-end 2004, enabling the consolidation of the entire ACC Health Science program at the Eastview campus.