Healthcare

Tompkins Associates and MARC Systems have entered into a strategic alliance to offer seamless supply chain solutions to the pharmaceutical and health care industries. Through the joint efforts of the respective sales and marketing teams, Tompkins and MARC Systems will enable clients to integrate supply chain execution software with operations best practices. With its extensive functionality and strict inventory control, the MARC product suite is utilized by major pharmaceutical companies to distribute some of the most carefully controlled substances in use.

Aetna U.S. Healthcare, based in Hartford, Conn., is building a $36 million, 180,000-sf regional headquarters in Landover to house 880 employees it will relocate from its Linthicum and Falls Church offices. The Capitol region's customer service functions and medical management will be accommodated in the new facility which is scheduled for completion in summer 2000.

Balboa Naval Hospital has hired Ninteman Construction Co. of San Diego to build a $2 million, 1.1 million-gallon emergency water storage tank for the hospital. The pre-stresssed concrete tank will be built 30 feet below a nearby softball field.

Several other San Diego-area firms working on the design-build project are DYK (tank construction); Naton Engineering (earth moving); Redondo Electric (utility line installation).

University of California San Diego Medical Center is remodeling its four-story, 28,000-sf Bachman Building. Two San Diego companies are involved in the renovation: Roesling Nakamura Architects Inc. and Kvaas Construction Co.

Willis Eye Hospital plans to sell its existing hospital in Philadelphia's Center City to Thomas Jefferson University, then build a new $40 million hospital across the street in the Walnut Towers building. Outpatient ophthalmological care will be the specialty of the new facility.

Methodist Healthcare System (MHS) will renovate 60,000 sf of a 150,000-sf former hosppital building at the South Texas Medical Center to consolidate its administrative/support functions currently located in leased space in several buildings.

Sutton Macina Sutton Architecture & Interiors of San Antonio will assist with architecture and space planning for the $2 million project. Move-in is scheduled to begin in May or June 2000 and be completed by September.

Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute has plans to expand with a new 226,000-sf, $56 million comprehensive cancer facility. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2000.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts has chosen Boston's Payton Construction Corp. to manage the build-out of the company's new 380,000-sf corporate headquarters at Landmark Center. Architects Margulies & Associates and Shooshanian Engineering are also working on the headquarters.

Keystone Mercy has outgrown its 200,000-sf build-to-suit headquarters currently under construction in Conshohocken, and will instead lease an additional building for its headquarters at the Airport Business Center in Lester, where most of its operations are housed.

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is scheduled to open its new $120 million, 300,000-sf campus in Palo Alto in September. The project consists of two buildings that accommodate the 140-doctor medical group, the research division, and the educational outreach group.

Ellerbe Becket of Minneapolis and RMW Architecture and Interior Design of San Francisco designed the facility; Swinerton Inc. of San Francisco was the general contractor.