Industry News

Presbyterian Healthcare Services broke ground in mid-September 2003 on the 65,000-sf Rio Rancho Medical Center in Rio Rancho, N.M. Employing approximately 40 physicians and specialists, the $17-million center will offer services including cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology, physical therapy, podiatry, pain management, and behavioral health. The project architect is Dekker/Perich/Sabatini with Klinger Constructors as general contractor. Completion is expected in May 2004.

The University of Kansas Medical Center recently broke ground on its $56 million Biomedical Research Center in Kansas City, Kan. Part of a $125 million campus development initiative, the 205,000-sf center will focus on neuroscience, genomics, cancer research, and human reproductive biology.

Guangzhou University in China has selected Watertown, Mass.-based Sasaki Associates to design Phase I of a $4 billion expansion. The project is comprised of forty million square feet on a 1,000-acre site.

The National Academy of Sciences is planning to open the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington D.C. by April of 2004. The $30 million, 6,000-sf facility will focus on bringing scientific research closer to the public. Opening exhibits at the new museum will focus on global warming and DNA.

Nueces County is renovating its historic 1914 courthouse facility to create a 78,000-sf science and technology museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. The architect for the $20 million project is Sween McGloin of Corpus Christi, with Stoddard Construction Co. as general contractor. The first phase is slated for completion in two years.