Trinity College has completed a $20 million renovation of its athletic facility including the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sport, a NCAA regulation playing field, and a 1,600-seat basketball arena. Trinity's athletic complex will be considered as a practice facility for the proposed Washington 2012 Olympics. Trinity College is a women's university with an enrollment of 1,500 students.
Media and Technology Charter High School (MATCH) selected HMFH Architects Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to design its new Boston campus--a 20,000-sf building. The general contractor for the project is A.J. Martini Inc.
National Hispanic University is planning to develop the 11-acre site of the former Fred Martin Elementary School in San Jose as its permanent home. The 60,000-sf facility is scheduled for completion in 2003. Site purchase was made possible by over $11 million in funding raised by the school, along with donations from Sobrato Development and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.
San Diego State University (SDSU) opened its new $16.5-million Aztech Athletics Center & Hall of Fame building in February 2002. Carrier Johnson, with offices in San Diego and Irvine, provided architectural and interior design services for the structure.
The Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority has selected the architectural team of HarleyEllis of Detroit and their Los Angeles affiliate Fields Deveraux Architects Engineers to program the new Los Angeles Regional Forensics Science Crime Laboratory.
Merck & Co. is planning a new 300,000-gsf biotechnology research facility on the campus of Emmanuel College in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Designated as Merck Research Laboratories-Boston, the structure will have twelve stories above ground and six below, and will house scientists, support staff, and administrative personnel when it opens in 2004.
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey has selected Sordoni Skanska of Parsippany, N.J., to manage construction for a 139,000-gsf expansion of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s current cancer facility. The Institute is located on the New Brunswick campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Construction on the $46.7-million, five-story project began in February 2002; completion is expected by December 2003. The expansion will add space for research, patient treatment, cancer prevention and education programs.
Genentech’s 385,000-sf, $145-million biotechnology facility—Genentech Hall— is under way at the University of California, San Francisco’s new Mission Bay campus. Executive architect for the project is the SmithGroup of San Francisco. Turner Construction is the construction manager for the building, which is more than 60 percent complete. A 1,200-sf atrium and a 2,500-sf cafeteria are some of the amenities in the new building.
Renovations to a 48,000-sf building have been completed at Point Loma Nazarene University's Mission Valley campus.
San Diego State University opened a new $31 million lab and research facility in January 2002. Featuring "smart classroom" technology for multimedia visual presentations, the building houses 57 state-of-the-art chemistry and geology labs and 700 workstations.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) broke ground in January 2002 on its 33,000-sf Durango Building addition. Slated for completion in March of 2003, the $7 million additon will house UTSA's Institute for Economic Development.
Harvard University has completed two renovation projects executed by Winchester-based Wise Construction Corp. Robert Olson Architects provided design services for renovation of 15,000 sf on the 11th floor of William James Hall for the Psychology Department. Darlow Christ Architects Inc. designed the Graduate School of Design's new Student Services Department.
San Diego State University has contracted Steinberg Group of Los Angeles to design a 2000-unit, 6,000-student sorority housing project. Located on 1.56-acres, Sorority Row will accompany SDSU's current fraternity housing project in an effort to decrease traffic congestion and increase parking inventory, as underground parking for the housing developments frees up spaces in SDSU parking garages. Construction is slated to begin in 2002 with occupancy estimated for the summer of 2004.
Dartmouth College has selected Cambridge, Mass.-based Bruner/Cott & Associates Inc. and Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners of Santa Monica, Calif., to plan and design a major expansion of their Hanover, N.H. campus. Slated for completion in 2004, the project features a new mathematics hall, a dining hall, and dormitory facilities for 500 to 600 students.
Ground was broken on Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's $75 million Outpatient Comprehensive Cancer Center in October 2001. The 257,530-sf facility is slated for completion in summer of 2003.
