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Baylor University Completes IT Facility
Baylor University has completed its $13.2 million multi-use facility that will serve as the new home for the university’s Information Technology Services Group. Sited on Baylor’s Dallas campus, the 400,000-sf design/build project houses office and restaurant space as well as structured parking for 1,195 cars. The contractor for the project was McCarthy, who also recently broke ground on a new 1,170-car, 360,000-sf design/build parking structure on Baylor’s Waco campus. Budgeted at $9.6 million, the facility will be completed in summer 2004.
MetroSafe Emergency Communications Plans Facility
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.
University of Central Florida Completes Sports Center
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.
Sibley Memorial Hospital Completes Decontamination Facility
Sibley Memorial Hospital recently completed a new decontamination facility at its Washington, D.C. location. In the event of a bioterrorist attack, the unit’s five showers and two dedicated rinse areas can accommodate up to fifty people per hour and a total of seven people at one time. The decontamination facility is located just outside Sibley’s emergency department.
GSA Upgrades Department of Commerce Building
The General Services Administration has selected GGA.Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects to design the 1.8 million-sf, $540 million upgrade of the Department of Commerce facility in Washington, D.C. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and includes the White House Visitors Center, the National Aquarium, and a parking garage. GGA.Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects is a partnership of Group Goetz Architects of D.C. and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut& Kuhn Architects of New York.