Industry News

The Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority has selected the architectural team of HarleyEllis of Detroit and their Los Angeles affiliate Fields Deveraux Architects Engineers to program the new Los Angeles Regional Forensics Science Crime Laboratory.

Merck & Co. is planning a new 300,000-gsf biotechnology research facility on the campus of Emmanuel College in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Designated as Merck Research Laboratories-Boston, the structure will have twelve stories above ground and six below, and will house scientists, support staff, and administrative personnel when it opens in 2004.

The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey has selected Sordoni Skanska of Parsippany, N.J., to manage construction for a 139,000-gsf expansion of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s current cancer facility. The Institute is located on the New Brunswick campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Construction on the $46.7-million, five-story project began in February 2002; completion is expected by December 2003. The expansion will add space for research, patient treatment, cancer prevention and education programs.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced in January that it plans to build its new 300mm chipmaking fabrication plant in Singapore, rather than in Texas or another U.S. location, despite significant efforts by many cities to draw the project to their region. AMD will partner with United Microelectronics Corp., based in Taiwan, to spread the costs of building the fab.

Genentech’s 385,000-sf, $145-million biotechnology facility—Genentech Hall— is under way at the University of California, San Francisco’s new Mission Bay campus. Executive architect for the project is the SmithGroup of San Francisco. Turner Construction is the construction manager for the building, which is more than 60 percent complete. A 1,200-sf atrium and a 2,500-sf cafeteria are some of the amenities in the new building.