Industry News

San Jose, Calif.-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp . is planning a $2-million expansion of its one-year-old semiconductor design facility in Hyderabad, India. Involving the addition of a silicon validation lab and equipment, the project will enable Cypress to add 33 engineering staff to its 17-person Hyderabad team by year-end 2005. The Hyderabad center currently designs network search engines.

Seton Healthcare Network has selected the Austin office of Clarksdale, Miss.-based White Construction to manage the construction of the new Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Sited on the former Robert Mueller Airport in Central Austin, the 470,000-sf state-of-the-art pediatric center will triple the footprint of the existing Children's Hospital of Austin which it will replace. Slated for completion in 2007, the 169-bed hospital is estimated to cost approximately $200 million. Construction will begin in fall 2004.

Naval Hospital Jacksonville has received $28.4 million from a military construction appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate to fund 43,000 sf of renovations and construction of a 75,000-sf, four-story addition to the existing medical building. The project will focus on improvements to the surgical and labor and delivery departments.

Texas Southern University will break ground on a four-story, $25-million science facility in Houston on October 7, 2004. The steel-framed, 165,000-sf building will house chemistry, math, and biology research and teaching laboratories for faculty and graduate students. The project team includes architect 3D International, general contractor Lyda Swinterton Buildings, and program manager KAI Texas. Completion is expected in January 2006.

The National Institutes of Health opened the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Md., on September 22, 2004. Totally dedicated to clinical research, the 870,000-sf Hatfield Center connects to the existing Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center.