Industry News

Atlanta-based Leeman Architectural Woodwork, a maker of custom displays and counters, will consolidate three separate Fulton County facilities with a move to a planned 350,000-sf manufacturing distribution facility in Powder Springs. Total building cost is approximated at $22 per square foot. The facility is slated for completion in January 2004.

UC Berkeley began construction in March 2003 on the new $162.3-million Stanley Hall. Part of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), the facility will provide 275,000 sf on eight floors above ground and three floors below ground. Replacing the existing Stanley Hall, the interdisciplinary facility will not belong to a single department but instead will bring together biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering researchers.

Agilent Technologies, a Palo Alto-based test and measuring equipment developer, has opened a new $92-million business and technology facility in Singapore.

Nassda Corp., a purveyor of full-chip circuit verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors, has relocated its headquarters to Santa Clara, Calif. The new 23,000-sf location more than doubles the size of Nassda previous space, also in Santa Clara.

Facilities management provider Aramark has expanded with four major acquisitions in the past year. Clinical technology services business Premier Inc. was acquired by Aramark, increasing opportunities to provide managed services at heath-care institutions, including the management and maintenance of clinical equipment. Aramark also purchased Fine Host Corp., which added over 900 locations to Aramark's client roster, ranging from convention centers to prisons to stadiums.