Industry News

Booz Allen & Hamilton are expanding their headquarters with a 122,000-sf office in Tysons Corner owned by Equity Office Properties Trust. The build-to-suit, six-story building is situated on 4 acres next to the Booz Allen headquarters campus and is estimated to reach completion in April of 2002. Construction manager Trammell Crow is developing the Class A building, named E.J. Randolph II.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has contracted construction firm Barclay White Skanska Inc. of Blue Bell to build a 145,000-sf, $41-million lab in New Brunswick, N.J.

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has completed the first phase of construction on the Columbia River Maritime Museum, the first nationally accredited maritime museum in the Northwest. Located in Astoria, Ore., the museum remained open during the 11-month construction project targeted for completion in October 2001. Phase I involved a 2,500-sf expansion and a 15,000-sf renovation providing space for an updated library, a state-of-the-art archive facility and new office space.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 72,000-sf campus center was completed by Cutler Associates, a design-build firm based in Worcester. Boston-based Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott designed the project.

Opticom Inc. has moved 95 employees into 33,000-sf at Brickstone Square in its home city of Andover, Mass. The software firm has an option on more space at the facility and plans to occupy up to an additional 15,000 to 20,000 sf by 2002.