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Children's Hospital at Fitzsimons Develops Aurora Campus
The Children's Hospital at Fitzsimons is developing a new "child-friendly" facility at its $360-million Aurora, Colo., campus. The 1.02-million-sf building will include significant outdoor green space with children's play areas, child-sized countertops in the reception areas and a kids-only area with Internet access, activities, games, and entertainment equipment. The new hospital will focus on family comfort as well, providing private patient rooms with family sleeping accommodations, family storage, private baths, data ports, and desks.
Northern Essex Community College Completes Technology Center
Northern Essex Community College has completed its new Technology Center in Haverhill, Mass. The state-of-the-art education and training facility, sited in the Greater Merrimack Valley Community, was designed by Miller Dyer Spears. The school's first new building in over 30 years, the $6.9-million, 30,000-sf facility is comprised of a two-story classroom wing, a large multipurpose room, and a grand foyer.
Cal State Fullerton Completes Performing Arts Center
Cal State Fullerton has completed its new $48.5-million, 109,000-sf Performing Arts Center. Housing rehearsal, laboratory, studio and technical space for theater, dance, music, and musical theater, the facility includes the 800-seat Vaughncille Joseph Meng Concert Hall, which features customized acoustics with fabric banners, Roman shades, and a circular 1,500-sf acoustical canopy that is raised or lowered to suit each performance. The center also includes the black box Millie & Dale Hallberg Theatre and the thrust-style James D. Young Theatre.
Emory University Plans Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Emory University has selected Boston-based Payette to conduct a feasibility study encompassing a precinct master plan for a replacement medical center for Emory University Hospital, Wesley Woods Hospital, and the Emory Clinic. The project, known as the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, allows for new research facilities to be adjacent to the diagnosis and treatment chassis connecting bench to bed. The first phase of implementation is estimated to be a 600,000-gsf multidisciplinary outpatient clinic and translational research building.
Intel Corp. Constructs Vietnam Assembly Plant
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. is beginning construction in early spring of 2006 on a $300-million semiconductor assembly and test facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Production at the plant is slated to begin in the second half of 2007. The facility will eventually employ 1,200 workers.