Nortel Networks has finished renovating its 76,000-sf office and R&D facility in Andover. The $1.7 million project was carried out by Spaulding & Slye Colliers of Boston.

Fox Chase Cancer Center has plans for two new centralized scientific facilities to study genomics and bioinformatics.

George Mason University's Fairfax campus may be the recipient of $31 million from the state's proposed 2000-2002 budget.

Canon U.S.A. Inc. opened its new 166,000-sf regional headquarters in November 1999.

Virginia Tech may receive $12 million in funding from the proposed state budget to build a biomedical center and establish a biotech research center.

University of California, San Francisco, broke ground in October 1999 on a $1.5 billion biotechnology campus at a 303-acre site in Mission Bay, where Stanford University plans to break ground in 20

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is scheduled to open its new $120 million, 300,000-sf campus in Palo Alto in September.

Stanford University has a new four-story Center for Clinical Science Research, designed by Ove Arup & Partners of San Francisco to withstand a major earthquake.

Siemens Electromechanical Components Inc. opened a new three-story, 100,000-sf headquarters in July at the Westpark Office Center.

Serono Laboratories Inc., based in Norwell, Mass., plans to consolidate its offices and labs at a new $20 million, 200,000-sf headquarters that will straddle the town line between Hingham and Rockl