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Industry News
New Merck Office Building
Merck & Company is building a new 220,000-sf office facility at its headquarters site in Whitehouse Station, N.J. The building was designed by Ballinger of Philadelphia, and will occupy an undeveloped 250-acre parcel adjacent to the headquarters. The three-story buildling can house 800 employees at capacity, and is designed with an open office plan. Amenities include dining areas, training/conference facilities, a fitness center, and credit union.
ADC Telecommunications Plans New World HQ
ADC Telecommunications Inc. is planning a new $100 million, eight-building world headquarters and technology campus. The new headquarters, a 91-acre site in Eden Prairie, Minn., will house ADC corporate, engineering, and divisional offices, and include office space, labs, light manufacturing areas and parking facilities. Amenities include a 280-seat auditorium, on-site fitness center, and expanded corporate training facilities. Johnson Controls Personal Environments will be installed at the individual workspaces.
State Street's New Boston Offices
State Street Corporation is occupying 410,000 sf in floors one through six at the Lafayette Corporate Center in Boston's Financial District. The Center--a former shopping mall--has been renovated and expanded to function as first class office space. For the build-out, State Street hired Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass., as the architect and George B.H. Macomber Company of Boston as construction manager.
UCSB Breaks Ground on Environmental Science & Management Building
University of California, Santa Barbara, broke ground in April on the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. The 84,672-sf structure will provide space for programs in Applied and Quantitative Ecology, Earth Systems Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, and Environmental Policy and Resource Management. It will include faculty and administrative offices, research and teaching labs, and conference and seminar rooms. Completion is scheduled for 2002.
ETS Houses Johnson Controls Institute's
Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS), one of Canada's leading engineering schools specializing in application and engineering technology, is teaming with Johnson Controls Inc. of Milwaukee to jointly teach building automation control. The university has designated 1,750 sf of classroom and lab space as a Johnson Controls Institute where ETS students and Johnson Controls customers and employees will be trained on the most current HVAC equipment, energy consumption control products, facility management systems and control applications.