Industry News

The Department of Defense has selected the Waynesboro office of GSC Construction Inc. to construct a $21-million hazardous training facility for the FBI. The facility will be located at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

The Advanced Technology Center (ATC) at KellyUSA, part of the Alamo Community College District's Information Technology and Security Academy, houses 23,000-sf of classroom and computer lab facilities for training students in the aerospace and information technology industries.

The Coca-Cola Co. has opened its new regional headquarters in the MCI Center in Los Angeles' historic downtown. The $600-million facility was designed and built using ecologically sensitive methods and materials.

The University of Georgia is planning to build a $10-million, 33,000-sf commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the University's Riverbend Research Village in Athens. Designed by Lockwood Green of Spartanburg, S.C., the project's construction will be managed by Atkins Hanscomb Faithful & Gould of Atlanta. The building will include research labs, classrooms, offices, and bioprocessing and manufacturing space for solid oral dosage medicines. The project is slated for groundbreaking in May 2003.

United Parcel Service has completed its new world-class central hub facility at the Louisville International Airport, a $1-billion, seven-year project that more than doubles the size of the company's existing facility. Totalling over 4 million sf, the expansion enables UPS to process approximately 300,000 packages per hour, a 50% productivity improvement. The terminal's infrastructure can support an increase to 500,000 packages per hour. The facility now includes 44 airplane loading docks and more than 17,000 conveyor belts.