Industry News

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.

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.