Industry News

SUNY Albany is working with International Sematech to create an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Resist Test Center at Albany Nanotech. Slated for completion in April 2004, the center will be housed in the NanoFab II facility which is currently under construction. The center’s nine employees will test a photosensitive chemical called resist that can transfer a circuit pattern onto a semiconductor wafer. Sematech’s $403 million computer chip research center is also located at Albany Nanotech.

Oasis Semiconductor is nearly quadrupling its size with a move from 7,353 sf to 30,000 sf at Waltham Weston Corporate Center in Waltham, Mass. Oasis is a supplier of silicon chips to the office automation market. The move will shift Oasis from the first to the fourth floor of the six-story, 300,000-sf building.

Vocollect Inc. relocates to its newly constructed 80,000-sf headquarters on August 15, 2003. Constructed adjacent to its current Wilkins Township, Pa., location, the four-story build-to-suit facility will include office, research, and production space, as well as state-of-the-art sound labs. The building also features a fitness center, recreation room, ergonomically designed workstations, and low-glare indirect lighting. Vocollect creates voice technology software and hardware.

The U.S. Army Medical Information Systems and Services Agency (USAMISSA) will occupy 75,000 sf in the North Beach Pavilion at Fort Sam Houston, one of three historic structures there under renovation. The lease is the first in the Fort Sam redevelopment project. USAMISSA is a provider of IT systems support to the Army Medical Department.

Iomega Corp. has completed construction of its new 40,000-sf headquarters in Torrey Pines, Calif. The $2-million facility was designed by Howard-Sneed Architecture and Design and constructed by Johnson & Jennings General Contracting.