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Industry News
Fairchild Semiconductor's New Carlsbad Office
Fairchild Semiconductor has a new $440,000 facility at the Palomar Crest Corporate Center in Carlsbad, Calif. The building, which includes private offices, conference rooms, and computer labs, was designed by Cooper Roberts Bennett Commercial Design of San Diego. Fairchild has hired San Diego-based Pacific Interior Systems to build out 25,000 sf of office space at the new facility.
Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center Renovation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, has begun a $163 million renovation and expansion of the hospitals that merged in 1996. The four-year project has begun with the renovation of 60 post partum rooms to accommodate private showers, VCRs, a sleep chair and refrigerator, all of which is scheduled for completion by the end of summer 2000.
Wheelock College Expansion and Renovation
Wheelock College, a 112-year-old private liberal arts college, is doing a complete $20 million renovation of its classroom building and adding both classroom and faculty office space to its activities building. For further expansion, the college also will buy Hebrew College's nearby Brookline campus, which includes a small classroom facility and a Guilded Age mansion. Hebrew College will relocate to a new $26 million, seven-acre campus currently under construction in Newton, Mass., next fall.
The NFPA , the WFCA and the IAPMO plan to develop a new set of Consensus Codes
The National Fire and Protection Agency (NFPA) has partnered with Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA) and the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) to build a set of Consensus Codes--a new set of codes for the built environment. Their goal is to provide safety officials with a new consistent and compatible set of codes by the year 2003. As part of the Consensus Code project NFPA also plans to devise a NFPA Building Code.
Microcoating Technologies Designs Chamblee R&D Complex
Microcoating Technologies has selected Lord, Aeck & Sargent Interactive Design of Atlanta to design a 200,000-sf master-planned lab and office complex where Microcoating will research and manufacture its thin film products. Lord Aeck & Sargent Interactive Design’s specialty is architecture for high tech companies.