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KeyCorp's Tiedeman Campus Receives Green Certification
Financial services company KeyCorp's Tiedeman campus in Brooklyn, Ohio, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a green building, making it the first financial services complex to earn this designation in Ohio. KeyCorp participated in the USGBC's new rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The Tiedeman property, a former brownfield site, is a 750,000-sf technology and operations campus comprised of two buildings and a parking garage.
New Belgium Brewing Builds Wind-Powered Facility
New Belgium Brewing Company has selected Swinerton Builders to construct a 76,000-sf bottling and packaging plant in Fort Collins, Colo. The nation's first wind-powered brewery, the $30-million steel and concrete facility will house an assembly line, cold storage, a warehouse and a shipping dock. Designed by BNIM Architects of Kansas City, Mo., the project is expected to begin construction in early 2006.
University at Buffalo School of Management Dedicates Alfiero Center
The University at Buffalo School of Management, part of the SUNY system, dedicated the 23,000-sf Alfiero Center on April 26, 2005. Sited on the University's North campus, the $7-million, three-story structure houses three classrooms, an Internet cafe, an entrepreneurship suite, space for student clubs and meetings, and academic and career development offices. The building features wireless computer technology integrated throughout the facility.
University of Hawaii Develops College of Tropical Agriculture Facilities
The University of Hawaii is developing two new projects for its College of Tropical Agriculture. The Komohana Agricultural Complex in Hilo will be renovated and improved to house state-of-the-art labs, offices, greenhouses, and support spaces. Completion of the $14.5-million facility is slated for August 2007. In Molokai, a permanent facility will be constructed for the Molokai Extension Program which currently operates out of a renovated farm building. The $1.1-million project is expected to reach completion in March 2007.
UT-Houston Medical School Breaks Ground on New Research Facility
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston broke ground in April 2005 on a new 208,500-sf research facility. The six-story, $78-million project will house four floors of research programs in neurobiology, the molecular biology of human pathogens, structural biology, and physiological genomics/systems biology. The top two floors of the facility will house a new animal care center to replace the one destroyed by Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.