Industry News

Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications' business and technology division has broken ground on a new headquarters at the Valley Forge Corporate Center. The company will relocate approximately 400 employees working in the area to the new 136,000-sf office when it opens in August 2001.

Cohu Inc. plans to relocate its plant and headquarters from Kearny Mesa, Calif., to a 20-acre site in Poway in 2001. The new $21.3 million, 338,00-sf facility will consolidate the operations of Cohu's manufacturing subsidiary, Delta Design, under one roof, and also accommodate administrative offices, and approximately 900 employees. Cohu manufactures test equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors.

Cisco Systems, based in San Jose, Calif., recently began construction at its nine-building campus on three 200,000-sf buildings: buildings 10, 11, and 12. These buildings were designed by O'Brien/Atkins Associates of Durham, N.C. Bovis/Lend Lease, based in Raleigh, N.C., is the general contractor. Completion is planned for 2001, when construction will begin on three more buildings--buildings 13, 14, and 15--which will total 500,000 sf. Cisco currently houses 3,000 employees at the site.

The San Diego Network Operations Center, a facility that will house the Navy Marine Corps’ Intranet project, will be built in the Rear Adm. Grace Hopper Building at San Diego’s North Island Naval Air Station. Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Services Corp. (EDS) is heading the multi-contractor project. EDS will locate its project headquarters, technology integration lab, and the Western help desk for the huge network in a 140,000-sf facility in San Diego.

The Pacific Exchange (PCX), the country’s fourth most active stock exchange, has selected Integrity Offices Solutions (IOS) of New York  to renovate the infrastructure of four buildings currently occupied by PCX in San Francisco. IOS will provide needs analysis, architectural design, MEP engineering, technology design, construction and overall project management services.