Industry News

Dell will celebrated the ground-breaking of its new 500,000-sf manufacturing plant in southeast Winston-Salem on February 23, 2005. The $115 million facility will be sited in the Alliance Science & Technology Park.

UPMC St. Margaret completed a $9.5 million expansion project in late 2004 that doubled the size of the hospital's existing emergency department. Designed by Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, the 19,000-sf department houses 16 exam rooms, 8 critical care treatment rooms, an infrared patient tracking system and an eight-bed holding suite. The emergency department is part of a new 32,000-sf, two-story addition that houses an isolated decontamination area. The $1.6 million in funding for the decontamination unit was supplied by the U.S.

Gulf Breeze Hospital, part of Pensacola-based Baptist Health Care System, has completed a major improvement and expansion of its Gulf Breeze, Fla., facility. The three-phase project consisted of a 12,100-sf cancer center and outpatient rehabilitation facility, a 30,000-sf medical office building, and a 47,000-sf expansion that triples the footprint of the emergency department, doubles the size of the surgical services and diagnostic imaging departments, and adds a six-bed ICU. The project was constructed by a joint venture of F.E.

The University of Missouri St. Louis is constructing a $26 million, five-story residence hall. Designed by Lotti Krishan & Short of Tulsa, Okla., the 431-bed dormitory will house two- and four-bedroom suites. The project contractor is Kozeny-Wagner of Arnold, Mo.

Temple University in Philadelphia is planning $400 million in construction projects on its main campus. Slated for completion over the next five years, the projects include a $67 million addition to the Fox School of Business and Management; a new $75 million facility for the Tyler School of Art; a $16 million technology center; a $150 million medical school; and renovation of 495,000 sf of science lab facilities.