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Purdue University Expands School of Chemical Engineering
PurdueUniversity is expanding the School of Chemical Engineering with a 96,000-sf addition. Part of the Purdue University Schools of Engineering Strategic Facilities Plan, the expansion includes an interactive multimedia learning center, a teaching lab for chemical engineering fundamentals, and an integrated lab complex for chemical and polymer engineering. The project will also house biomedical, catalysis and surface science research clusters. The addition is designed as flexible laboratory space to foster teamwork, interactive discussion and innovative research.
University of Massachusetts Builds Engineering Lab II
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing Engineering Laboratory II, a $20,616,000 facility providing graduate research laboratories for the Chemical Engineering and Civil/Environmental Engineering Departments. As phase II of the Engineering and Computer Science Complex, the facility is being built just south of the project’s first phase, the Computer Science Building. Designed by Ellenzweig Associates and Whitney Atwood Norcross, the 60,000-sf building will feature a 45-seat distance learning center and a 195-seat auditorium.
Toyota Builds $140-Million Tijuana Plant
Toyota announced that it will manufacture completed Tacoma trucks as well as truck beds at its $140-million Tijuana plant currently under construction. Slated to open in 2005, the facility will have the capacity to build 20,000 trucks and 170,000 truck beds annually, and will employ 460 workers. Located on 700 acres in eastern Tijuana, the facility will be the first automobile manufacturing plant in Baja California.
UGA Opens Student Athlete Academic Center
The University of Georgia Athletic Association opened the Rankin M. Smith Sr. Student Athlete Academic Center on October 12. The $6.7-million, 31,000-sf center houses a multimedia classroom, computer labs, writing center, tutoring rooms, counselor's office and a 250-seat lecture and meeting hall.
Novartis Expands in Cambridge
Swiss pharmaceutical Novartis AG is renovating over 500,000-sf at the Necco (New England Confectionary Company) property in Cambridge for biotech use. Novartis plans to employs 600 technology experts, scientists and support staff at the facility. The lease is in addition to Novartis' previous Cambridge lease of 450,000 sf to house its worldwide research group.