Industry News

ITT Technical Institute has opened a new campus in Duluth, Ga. The newly constructed building accommodates ten classrooms, ten laboratories, and several administrative offices. ITT is one of the nation’s largest technical schools, with 75 campuses in the United States.

Agricultural biotech company PlantGenix is relocating from Philadelphia to expanded offices in the Great Valley Corporate Center in Malvern, Pa. The new facility will enable PlantGenix to pursue its plant-based production of a variety of chemical and biological compounds.

The ACET biotechnology incubator will construct its new facility on a 3.4-acre parcel of land at the former Fleet Industrial Supply Center in Alameda, Calif. ACET, Advancing California’s Emerging Technologies, will develop between 35,000 sf and 40,000 sf of  incubator space housing 35 small laboratories. The facility will accommodate the needs of up to 45 companies. ACET is currently housed in 6,900 sf at the former Alameda Naval Air Station. 

The University of Louisville has selected architects Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan Inc. of Louisville and SmithGroup of Detroit to design its third biomedical research building at the downtown Health Sciences Campus. The $98 million, 250,000-sf facility is expected to reach seven or eight stories in height and will be constructed on a former U of L parking lot.

The U.S. General Services Administration has selected Skanska USA Building as the design-builder to complete the design of and construct the new U.S. Census Bureau headquarters at Suitland Federal Center in Suitland, Md. HKS Inc. of Dallas will serve as the design consultant for the project.