Industry News

MetroSafe Emergency Communications System is planning a centralized communications center in Louisville, Ky. Linking dispatchers for fire, police, EMS and other first responders, the center would merge nine existing Louisville dispatch centers into a central dispatch communicating with all emergency workers in the metro area. The system is expected to cost between $40 and $60 million.

The University of Central Florida’s Wayne Densch Sports Center has recently been completed by Clancy & Theys Construction in Orlando, Fla. The 44,000-sf training facility, a one-story building modeled after an early 1920’s field house, features a sports medical center and strength and conditioning room accessible to all UCF student athletes. The center also houses offices for UCF’s football team.

The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has selected Boston-based Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott to design its new 350,000-sf cardiovascular center. The center will accommodate 20 intensive care beds, six operating rooms, five cardiac catheterization labs, five electrophysiology labs, two interventional radiology operating rooms, 36 outpatient exam rooms, and a non-invasive testing suite. Construction will begin in fall 2003 with completion in spring 2007.

Oasis Semiconductor is nearly quadrupling its size with a move from 7,353 sf to 30,000 sf at Waltham Weston Corporate Center in Waltham, Mass. Oasis is a supplier of silicon chips to the office automation market. The move will shift Oasis from the first to the fourth floor of the six-story, 300,000-sf building.

The University of Texas is planning the Texas Center for High-Intensity Laser Science. The facility will accommodate scientists studying and manipulating the interactions of matter with a high-intensity laser. The center, slated for completion in three years, will be built in an underground bay on the university’s Austin campus.