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EPA Relocation Prompts Renovation
The Environmental Protection Agency's new 1.2 million-sf campus will be ready for occupancy in summer 2002. The largest facility ever built for the EPA, the campus can house 2,200 employees and 10,000 research animals, and will include 400 individual labs, a cafeteria, a conference center and a child-care center. The National Computer Center, which contains the agency's nationwide data, has already moved to the new headquarters.
Boston Tech Center Lab Retrofit Under Way
The 444,000-sf Boston Tech Center is being retrofitted as a lab building by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of New England. Originally designed as a telecommunications hotel, the facility will finish construction as a shell biomedical building and is projected to become a hub for lab companies. The three-story building will house two levels of ground-floor parking to accommodate 650 vehicles. A 40,000-sf glass atrium will be located on the second and third floors.
National Weather Service Seeks Build-to-Suit Office Space
The National Weather Service's parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking a 200,000-sf build-to-suit office site and a developer to replace the weather service's offices at the older 126.500-sf World Weather Building in Camp Springs, Prince George's County. According to the General Services Administration, likely locations include College Park or Greenbelt, Md.
University of Iowa Restores Old Capital Building
The University of Iowa, Iowa City has selected Boston-based Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering PC in conjunction with OPN Architects of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to engineer restoration of the university's historic Old Capitol Building’s golden dome. The dome sustained extensive fire damage in November of 2001.
Crawford Long Builds New State-of-the-Art Hospital
Crawford Long Hospital’s new $270-million hospital and headquarters features a new medical office tower and state-of-the-art facilities. Having received approval from the state two years ago to redevelop its aging campus, Crawford Long and Cousins Properties Inc. have partnered to build one of the largest hospital construction projects ever undertaken in Georgia. The six-story hospital will consolidate outpatient services from several buildings and will house an emergency department triple the size of current facilities. Physicians will be located directly above the patients they serve.