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Industry News
Underwriters Laboratories Opens RTP Campus
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has opened a telecommunications equipment testing facility in Research Triangle Park. The 4,500-sf network equipment building system features an earthquake simulator providing tremors up to 7.0 on the Richter scale that shakes equipment on a hydraulic table. The facility also houses an altitude simulator (up to 20,000 ft) and temperature extremes ranging from 40 to 180 degrees Celsius.
University of Phoenix Builds Braintree Satellite Campus
The University of Phoenix has contracted Braintree-based Integrated Builders to build its 13,000-sf Braintree satellite campus, with Grossman Cos. Inc.of Quincy providing site development.
Intel Renovates Hudson Offices
Intel Corp. has selected Braintree-based Integrated Builders to manage the $3 million renovation of its 80,000-sf Hudson offices.
Locus Discovery Secures Blue Bell Location
Biopharmaceutical firm Locus Discovery Inc. is leasing 50,000-sf of lab and office space in Blue Bell. Based in West Windsor, N.J., the high-tech drug design company will be relocating approximately 25 staff members to the facility in two stages, to be completed by the end of August. Initially only 25,000-sf will be utilized, with expansion into the entire space to follow in the next three years.
DNC To Build New Headquarters
The Democratic National Committee is purchasing four blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol as the site of its new 90,000-sf headquarters. The DNC has outgrown its current facilities four blocks to the east where 500 employees are spread in three buildings. Featuring a TV and radio broadcast studio, the project will be built by Trammel Crow and is slated for groundbreaking in spring of 2002, with occupancy scheduled for February of 2004.