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University of Texas Health Science Center Builds New Student Services Facility
The University of Texas Health Science Center has selected the team of Centex Construction Co. of Dallas and Zachry Construction Corp. of San Antonio to provide construction management services for its new academic administration and student services building. Located on its San Antonio campus, the 60,000-sf building will house administrative staff, including the Health Science Center president. HKS of Dallas will provide architectural services for the facility, which will serve as a gateway to the campus as well as a focal point.
Austin Community College Builds Health Sciences Center
Austin Community College (ACC) broke ground in April on its new 146,000-sf Health Careers Building. The $29-million health sciences center will be located at ACC’s Eastview campus in East Austin and will house up to 600 students. The facility will be built in two phases. Phase One, with a budget of $17.2 million, will provide 89,000 sf of lab, classroom and office space for nursing, surgical technology, radiology and dental hygiene programs. Completion of Phase One is anticipated in fall of 2003.
UCSD Builds New Research Facility
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) has awarded the San Diego office of McCarthy Building Cos. a $42.4-million contract to build a new School of Medicine research facility. McCarthy, based in Newport Beach, Calif., began construction in February on the 146,382-sf, four-story facility. The project is slated for completion by February of 2004. UCSD’s 110,000-sf Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building is also being built by McCarthy.
Advanced Micro Devices To Renovate Austin Fab 25
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will invest $350 million in the next two years to convert its Fab 25 processor chip plant in Austin into a flash memory plant. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip manufacturer hopes to equip the plant to last through the next two generations of chip technology. Flash memory enables devices to retain memory and information without active power supply to the device.
Advanced Micro Devices Seeks Austin Office Space
Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is seeking 90,000 sf of office space in Austin to house Alchemy Semiconductor, which AMD recently purchased. The facility will be home to Personal Connectivity Solutions, a newly formed AMD division focused on non-PC product devices. Alchemy’s lease on 20,000 sf in Austin expires at the end of April. Alchemy develops and markets microprocessors.