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Covance Labs Relocates Unit to Chantilly
Covance Laboratories will relocate its immunochemistry group from Vienna, Va., to a new laboratory under development at the Avion Tech Center III Park in Chantilly. Developer of the project is Biotech Services Group, the subsidiary of Scheer Partners that focuses on life science and biotech facilities. The new building will provide R&D labs and walk-in cold rooms in a 24,000-sf single-story structure.
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.
UC San Diego & Salk Institute Plan Brain-Imaging Facility
The University of California-San Diego (UCSD) will work with the Salk Institute to construct the West Coast's largest interdisciplinary brain-imaging research facility. Construction began in November 2000 on the $13.5 million, 6,500-sf structure next to UCSD's School of Medicine. Four functional magnetic resonance imaging machines'two for human studies and two for animals'will be housed in the new structure which is scheduled for completion in October 2001.The building was designed by RBB Architects Inc. of Los Angeles. San Diego-based Soltek Pacific is the general contractor.
University of Houston Expands M.D. Anderson Library
The University of Houston has plans for a $45 million expansion and renovation of the M.D. Anderson Library, scheduled to start in late 2001. The architect for the project is Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott in association with Houston-based Morris Architects.