Industry News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Defense will construct the $328 million Biometrics Technology Center in Clarksburg, W.V. Located at the FBI’s existing Criminal Justice Information Services campus, the four-story, 360,000-sf facility will support the research, development, and application of biometrics in support of national security and law enforcement. The center will enable the FBI to consolidate its biometrics operations in a single location and will house approximately 2,000 employees. Completion is expected in 2013.

Parkland Memorial Hospital will begin construction in November of 2010 on a $1.27 billion replacement facility in Dallas. The 1.9 million-sf project is being designed by HDR of Omaha and Corgan Associates of Dallas. The construction management team includes Balfour Beatty Construction, Austin Commercial, H.J. Russell & Co., Azteca Enterprises, and CH2M Hill Enterprise Management Solutions.

Construction will begin in February of 2010 on the $110 million Garvan St Vincent's Cancer Centre in Sydney. Providing advanced cancer research and treatment facilities, the nine-story building is slated for completion in mid-2012.

San Diego County opened its $85 million Medical Examiner and Forensic Center in San Diego in January of 2010. The 84,000-sf facility houses a morgue, 17 technology-rich autopsy rooms, histology and toxicology labs, conference rooms, and advanced imaging suites.

New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center celebrated the opening of the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center in New York in January of 2010. Designed by Pei Cobb Freed and daSILVA Architects, the six-story, 142,000-sf building will provide comprehensive cardiac care with advanced technologies for diagnosis and treatment. The facility was made possible by a $50 million gift from the Vivian and Seymour Milstein family.