Industry News

Human Genome Sciences hopes to relocate its 600 employees from Rockville, Md., to a 45-acre headquarters in North Potomac. Preliminary plans for the new campus: a 400,000-sf to 500,000-sf initial build-out, with the potential for up to one million sf. Pending approval by the Montgomery County Planning Board in July, final relocation plans will be ready by fall. Construction could begin by summer 2001, with move-in sometime in 2003. Head-count at the facility could reach 2,500 over the next several years.

National Institutes of Health has three major projects under construction. The Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center is a $360 million, 600,000-gsf replacement hospital plus an additional 850,000 sf of research labs. The Washington office of Portland, Ore.-based Zimmer Gunsul Frasca designed the "clinical research model" building, with labs close to patient care units. Completion is anticipated in December 2002.

Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG, designer and manufacturer of systems for internal combustion engines, has selected Albert Kahn Associates Inc. (AKA) of Detroit to provide programming and schematic design for a new technical center. The 100,000-sf, multi-story Kolbenschmidt Pierburg Technical Center will house office, prototype assemply, lab, and testing areas. It will be constructed in three phases at a 12.5-acre site in Auburn Hills.

Reinhold Industries has awarded the design of their new corporate headquarters to Ware & Malcomb Architects of Irvine, Calif. Four existing buildings will be demolished to make way for the new 50,000-sf office/manufacturing/warehouse building. Ware & Malcomb will design both the shell and tenant improvement for the new building. Two existing buildings will be re-skinned and a 9,000-sf addition will convert two existing buildings into one. Reinhold Industries manufactures composite plastics for use as airplane, jet plane, and missile parts.

The Carson Companies has five new single-story office/industrial buildings under construction at the company's 438-acre master-planned Dominguez Technology Center. The high-tech buildings, which total 653,503 sf, will have access to fiber optic and data communication lines. Completion of construction is anticipated between October 2000 and early 2001. The general contractor for the project is Millie and Severson Incorporated of Los Alamitos, Calif. RGA Architecture and Withee Malcolm Partnership designed the buildings.