Industry News

The U.S. General Services Administration has selected the Los Angeles office of New York-based architectural firm Richard Meier & Partners to design the new 60,000-sf federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. The facility is projected to reach completion in fall 2009.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a producer of business jet aircraft, has awarded UNICCO Service Company a $41-million, five-year contract to provide integrated facilities services for Gulfstream's manufacturing, completions, offices, and service facilities in Georgia. Contract services include plant operations, equipment maintenance and test equipment calibration, ground support, facilities engineering, space allocation, and subcontractor management.

Harvard Medical School has outsourced all engineering and trade functions for mechanical systems maintenance to UNICCO Service Company. Including preventative, predictive and emergency maintenance for Harvard's 19 buildings and 1.6-million sf, the contract includes utility management, facilities systems monitoring and maintenance, a 24/7 call center, work order management, automated inspections, and management reporting.

North Carolina State University has awarded Shelco Inc. the $17-million contract to construct the 80,000-sf Partners Building III. Located on the Centennial Campus, the three-story building will house offices for the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences and the College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences. The project includes an adjacent 630-car parking deck.

Clear Channel Communications has leased 95,000 sf in The Pinnacle, a 235,000-sf, six-story, 4.4-acre office complex in Burbank, Calif. Clear Channel, based in San Antonio, will locate its eight Los Angeles-area radio stations in the facility.