Industry News

Hewlett-Packard Co. opened a new 360,000-sf data center in February of 2010. Located in Wynyard in the United Kingdom, the facility is cooled by wind and uses approximately 40 percent less energy than a conventional data center.

Kaiser Permanente is constructing the 386,000-sf Ontario Vineyard Medical Center in Ontario, Calif. Ground was broken on the five-story, 224-bed hospital in January of 2008 with completion expected in August of 2011. The $550 million project includes a 36-bed emergency room and medical specialties in cardiology, nephrology, OB/GYN, orthopedics, and urology. The hospital is being constructed on Kaiser’s healthcare facility template.

Florida International University dedicated its $34 million College of Nursing and Health Sciences facility in Miami in February of 2010. The five-story, 100,000-sf building consolidates the university’s health sciences programs in a single location to support collaborative teaching and research. Designed by HOK, the facility is comprised of two wings and features simulation training suites, interactive skills laboratories, lecture classrooms, distance learning facilities, conference rooms, wet research labs, computer suites, and evaluation areas.

Proterra will begin construction in spring of 2010 on a $68 million research, development, and manufacturing facility in Greenville, S.C.  Located at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), the 240,000-sf building will be sited on five acres. Proterra is based in Golden, Colo., and is a manufacturer of electric and hybrid drive trains for buses, trucks, and other vehicles.

The University of California Riverside celebrated the opening of the Stem Cell Core Facility (SCCF) in February of 2010. Located in Noel Keen Hall, the 2,000-sf facility features a Nikon BioStation CT incubator and advanced microscopy instrumentation. The project was funded by $2.8 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.