Industry News

United Parcel Service has completed its new world-class central hub facility at the Louisville International Airport, a $1-billion, seven-year project that more than doubles the size of the company's existing facility. Totalling over 4 million sf, the expansion enables UPS to process approximately 300,000 packages per hour, a 50% productivity improvement. The terminal's infrastructure can support an increase to 500,000 packages per hour. The facility now includes 44 airplane loading docks and more than 17,000 conveyor belts.

Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union recently broke ground on its new Administrative Service Center in Live Oak, Texas. The 112,000-sf facility will house 350 employees, consolidating administrative personnel from six separate locations. The project is being designed by local architectural firm Chesney-Morales Associates and built by Metropolitan Contracting Co. Slated for completion by fall of 2003, the center will house all back-office operations including marketing, security, call centers, and loss prevention.

Suffolk University is building a new dormitory in Boston's urban Beacon Hill area. Designed by Cannon Design, the facility will be constructed on an 8,700-sf former parking lot and will stand 19 stories above ground with two stories below ground. The west side of the structure will feature a glass curtainwall.

Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge will relocate its biosurgery division to 61,101 sf on floors three through six of a nine-story, 276,000-sf building in Cambridge's Kendall Square.

Serologicals Corp. of Atlanta will decide the location of a second Ex-Cyte manufacturing facility by November 30. Several locations in the Midwest are being considered as the site of the $28-million plant. Completion is slated for the first half of 2004, with a 15 to 18 month construction period.

Serologicals provides biological products and technologies for the research, development, and manufacture of biologically-based life science products.