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Sibley Memorial Hospital Completes Decontamination Facility
Sibley Memorial Hospital recently completed a new decontamination facility at its Washington, D.C. location. In the event of a bioterrorist attack, the unit’s five showers and two dedicated rinse areas can accommodate up to fifty people per hour and a total of seven people at one time. The decontamination facility is located just outside Sibley’s emergency department.
GSA Upgrades Department of Commerce Building
The General Services Administration has selected GGA.Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects to design the 1.8 million-sf, $540 million upgrade of the Department of Commerce facility in Washington, D.C. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and includes the White House Visitors Center, the National Aquarium, and a parking garage. GGA.Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects is a partnership of Group Goetz Architects of D.C. and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects of New York.
Georgia Tech Opens Hotel and Conference Center
Georgia Institute of Technology celebrated the opening of the $47-million Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on September 4, 2003. Part of the $196 million Technology Square development, the 252-room hotel and high-tech executive conference center broke ground in October 2001 and features wireless Internet, video conferencing, and its own satellite uplink. Hotel rooms include flat-screen televisions and T-1 line Internet connections. The building was designed by architects Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates Inc.
University of Michigan Plans Cardiovascular Center
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has selected Boston-based Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott to design its new 350,000-sf cardiovascular center. The center will accommodate 20 intensive care beds, six operating rooms, five cardiac catheterization labs, five electrophysiology labs, two interventional radiology operating rooms, 36 outpatient exam rooms, and a non-invasive testing suite. Construction will begin in fall 2003 with completion in spring 2007.
Oasis Semiconductor Expands in Waltham
Oasis Semiconductor is nearly quadrupling its size with a move from 7,353 sf to 30,000 sf at Waltham Weston Corporate Center in Waltham, Mass. Oasis is a supplier of silicon chips to the office automation market. The move will shift Oasis from the first to the fourth floor of the six-story, 300,000-sf building.