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Biocom Plans San Diego Biotechnology Training Center
Biocom, a San Diego life sciences group, will work with educational and corporate organizations to create the San Diego Multiuse Biotechnology Training Center. The planned facility will train San Diego's future biotech workforce and will be funded by government grants and public-private partnerships.
Toppan Optical Products Opens Poway Plant
Toppan Optical Products has opened a new $40 million, 94,000-sf plant in Poway, Calif. The facility accommodates production manufacturing using computerized controls in a cleanroom environment.
University of Texas Plans Biomedical Engineering Facility
The University of Texas is planning its new $22-million Department of Biomedical Engineering facility on its main Austin campus. The four-story, 80,000-sf facility will provide classroom and research space for three areas of biomedical engineering: imaging, computing, and molecular and cellular bioengineering. Office and classroom space will occupy 40,000 sf; laboratories will occupy the remaining 40,000-sf. The research facilities will house dry labs for computer and instrumentation studies as well as wet lab space. Occupancy is expected in 2005.
Stanford University Medical School Plans Biotech Research Center for Children's Health
Stanford University Medical School is planning to create the Biotech Research Center for Children's Health with $700,000 in funding received from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
SEC Awards Contract for Headquarters Build-Out
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has selected Dietz Construction to build-out its new 650,000-sf headquarters facility at Station Place in Washington, D.C. Interior construction is slated to begin in fall of 2003 and reach completion in November 2004.