Industry News

Nanomix, a nanotechnology company engaged in developing components for electronics, sensor applications and energy storage, has signed a 10-year lease for 13,000-sf in Emeryville. The facility, located in Wareham Development's 30,000-sf EmeryStation North, will be the first tenancy in the building's second stage of lab build-outs. Approximately half of the space will be used as laboratory, with the remaining as office space.

Union General Hospital in Blairsville, Ga., has opened the $1.7-million Cancer Treatment Center. The 10,000-sf center will provide both physician education and patient therapy. Stegenga + Partners of Atlanta designed the facility, which is owned by North Georgia Radiation Partners LLC.

The Department of Defense has awarded Bates Engineers/Contractors Inc. the $8.7-million contract to build a four-bay, 55,000-sf maintenance hangar at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. The project will include a squadron operations center.

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.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recently celebrated the structural completion of its South Tower with a topping-off ceremony. The 10-story, 332,000-sf inpatient-care facility, part of a multi-year $650-million expansion plan, will enable the hospital to increase its bed capacity from 381 to 430. As part of the South Tower project, the pediatric intensive care unit, cardiac center and pediatric oncology center will also be expanded and renovated. The emergency department, which annually accommodates 67,000 visits, will be expanded as well.