Industry News

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation has awarded architectural firm NBBJ the contract to design its new 110-bed medical center in San Carlos, Calif. The $300 million facility is expected to reach completion by 2011

United Biochemicals is planning a 20,000-sf expansion of of manufacturing and warehousing operations at its existing 23,000-sf facility in Sanborn, N.Y. The $1.2-million project will enable the biochemical manufacturer to add 30 more jobs to its existing staff of 24 over the next five years. The facility, sited in the Inducon Industrial Park, is slated for completion in February 2005.

IBM Corp. and six other semiconductor companies will invest $1.9 billion to construct a chip manufacturing plant in East Fishkill, N.Y. The plant will creat 750 jobs, in addition to 250 research-related positions. The partners in the consortium are reported to include Samsung, Sony Corp., Toshiba, Infineon Technologies, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Advanced Micro Devices.

Nielsen Media Research (NMR), a provider of television audience measurement and monitoring services, has completed its new $71.5 million, 39-acre corporate campus in Oldsmar, Fla. The 475,000-sf Phase I campus consists of five interconnected buildings which include training rooms, conference facilities, and a 4,000-sf employee cafeteria that can accommodate over 330 people. The project features a four-story, 100,000-sf data center and central plant with a 25,000-sf computer room.

Shriners' Hospital for Children in Mexico City is now 73 pecent complete. Constructed by Beck, the 311,000-sf facility consists of three storeis and a basement housing 80 pediatric and four critical care beds.