Industry News

The $100 million California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research is nearing completion at the Mission Bay campus in South San Francisco. The 153,000-sf facility is the first of four buildings that will make up the institute known as QB3 and is connected to U.C. San Francisco's Genentech Hall on all five stories. The Mission Bay facility will house a magnetic resonance imaging machine, a high through-put screening facility, a 250,000-compound chemical library for drug development, and 8,000 CPUs.

Gehl Co., based in West Bend, Wisc., is engaged in an $8.7 million expansion of its Yankton, S.D., manufacturing facility. Adding capacity for production, manufacturing, and equipment, the 49,000-sf addition will be complemented by a 4,000-sf research and development area. Gehl Co. manufactures telescopic handlers and pavers.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton celebrated the grand opening of the recently completed Beachler Nursing University on February 17, 2004. The $1.3-million facility houses faculty offices, two classroom, an Internet cafe, and a conference room.

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.