Industry News

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., has reached the halfway mark on its $166 million “Project for Progress”. Construction manager McCarthy is overseeing 460,000 sf of new construction and 350,000 sf of renovations to provide enhanced hospital accessibility and additional space for outpatient, emergency, and cancer treatment services. The project includes a 550-space parking structure and a new MRI. Completion is expected in winter of 2005.

Torrance Medical Center is constructing the 94,500-sf West Campus Tower in Torrance, Calif. Designed by Torrance-based Hamilton Klow & Associates, the 5-level facility includes an interconnecting bridge linking the tower to the existing hospital. Project contractor McCarthy will complete construction in spring of 2004.

Maxim Integrated Products has purchased a San Antonio warehouse formerly occupied by Phillips Semiconductors for $40 million. The 330,000-sf facility is sited on a 168-acre campus and features a submicron 8-inch wafer fab able to produce eight million components annually. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Maxim expects to resume production of silicon wafers in the new facility by year-end 2004.

The General Services Administration has leased 97,785-sf for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in DeKalb County, Ga. The CDC will house its epidemiology program and two Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry divisions in the Century Center facility.

The Raleigh-Durham International Airport has awarded Denver-based Fentress Bradburn Architects Ltd. a $5-million contract for design and engineering of the Terminal C expansion and renovation project. The total project cost is $350 million. The design is expected to be completed in December 2003.