Industry News

Manpower has selected Gilbane Building Company as construction manager for its new 280,000-sf world headquarters facility in downtown Milwaukee. The $50-million project includes the headquarters building, the extension of the Milwaukee RiverWalk, and a 1,260-stall, seven-story parking structure conneceted to the building via a skywalk.

Johns Hopkins University has plans to house The Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences (IBBS) in the John G. Rangos Sr. Building, the first building to be built at the new life sciences Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins, which broke ground April 17, 2006. The Park is an $800-million development directed by East Baltimore Development Inc. that will include housing, retail, and other businesses and services.

Wake Forest University has dedicated its new $72-million Biotechnology Research Facility 1 (BRF1), the sixth building at the Piedmont Triad Research Park which is located on 240 acres in downtown Winston-Salem, N.C. The University's Institute for Regenerative Medicine along with the Lipid Sciences Research Group will both be housed in offices and labs in the five-story, 187,000-sf structure, which commenced construction a little over two years ago. Architect for the project was O'Brien Atkins; Shelco Inc. was the builder.

Florida Gulf Coast University has selected Kraft Construction of Naples, Fl., to build the U.A. Whittaker School of Engineering. Groundbreaking for the three-story facility is scheduled for fall 2006. It will provide 50,000- to 70,000 sf of space for offices, lab space, and classrooms. Construction of the $15-million building should begin in early 2007 with completion in 2008.

The new $97-miillion National Security Sciences building has opened at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  The design-build project contains 680 offices, a 600-person lecture hall, and administrative and staff facilities. Work in the new facility will focus on solutions to national security issues.