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FedEx Plans World Headquarters
FedEx has selected the Hnedak Bobo Group to provide master planning and architectural design services for its new world headquarters in Memphis. The complex occupies 89 acres and will house an estimated 4,000 employees, a cafeteria, training facility, FXTV studio, legal offices, executive and general administrative offices, and other employee-related facilities. The buildings will be designed for maximum flexibility for FedEx to mix occupants as required to satisfy growth and corporate change.
University of Delaware Lights Up Campus Renovations
University of Delaware has selected The Lighting Practice of Philadelphia to create the lighting for two renovated buildings plus a new addition on the University’s Newark campus. The 95,000-sf Wolf Hall and McKinly Hall will be thoroughly upgraded and renovated. The Biology Department for postgraduate studies and research and the Psychology Department, which serves both undergraduates and postgraduates, occupy both halls. A new 10,000-sf addition to Wolf Hall will complete the complex.
Washington University's New Biomed Engineering Facility
Washington University broke ground in early October 2000 on the university's Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering building, designed by Boston-based architects Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott. The new three-story facility will include a flexible laboratory wing comprised of 22,000 sf of wet lab space and 12,500 sf of procedure equipment and environmental areas (which will include a nanofabrication lab, vivarium, electron microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance suites). A three-story atrium will connect the laboratory wing with faculty office pods and classrooms.
San Jose Middle Schools Update Science Classrooms
Ida Price Middle School and Orchard Middle School in San Jose have worked with Saramark Inc., a San Jose construction company, to upgrade their science classrooms. To ensure state approval, Saramark adhered closely to the California Department of Architecture's standards and regulations for classrooms, school labs, seismic retrofitting, storage of chemicals, ventilation, and plumbing.
UC San Diego & UC Irvine Plan Cal-(IT)2
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) and the University of California-Irvine (UCI) have received funding to launch the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, dubbed Cal-(IT)2, an interdisciplinary center to research telecommunications and information technology. The $300 million project will build a 215,000-sf at UCSD and a smaller facility at UCI. Construction of the UCSD building is scheduled for completion in 2004.