Industry News

The City of Wichita dedicated the $3-million, 24,000-sf Chris Cherches CityArts Building on October 2, 2004. The facility will accommodate arts, public events, and cultural activities.  

Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has been awarded $7.5 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN). The CPN is one of six new NSF-funded centers for the development of science and engineering at the scale of the nanometer. The CPN, a partnership between researchers at Stanford, IBM, and other companies, will occupy offices and a teaching laboratory in Stanford's Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.

The University of New Mexico Hospital will initiate a $233 million expansion of its Albuquerque Children's Hospital in fall of 2004. The 487,000-sf project will include six new floors of clinical space, an improved emergency department, and a new maternity center. Completion is expected by fall of 2007.

Design of Roche Diagnostic 's new 440,000-sf PCR Manufacturing Center in Branchburg, N.J., is nearing completion. PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is leading-edge technology in the field of molecular diagnostics. The facility will include a new state-of-the-art 230,000-sf pharmaceutical manufacturing center, a 32,000-sf office building (completed), and the renovation of a 180,000-sf existing laboratory and office headquarters for Roche Molecular Systems. The manufacturing facility is slated for completion in November 2004.

The University of Michigan is constructing a $70-million facility at its School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. Part of 200,000 sf of new construction at the University, the high-rise project is an air-rights building connecting two existing public health buildings known as SPH-1 and SPH-2. Designed by Centerbrook Architects and SEi , the facility will allow greater collaboration among students, faculty, and departments.