Industry News

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has selected Boston-based Tishman Construction Corp. to provide construction quality/cost management services for the 713,000-sf Ray and Maria Stata Center. The academic complex, designed by Frank O. Gehry, is located on 2.8 acres of MIT's main campus. 

KIO Networks is planning a collocation data center in Mexico City. Designed by EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a firm with offices in Boston, the facility will contain data storage equipment for multiple companies. The data center will be housed in a 30,000-sf former warehouse.

The Minute Maid Co., an operating division of The Coca-Cola Co. of Atlanta, is planning to build a noncarbonated beverage production plant in Auburndale.  The 620,000-sf facility will cost $130-million for construction and equipment. In two weeks, site preparation will begin, with groundbreaking following in another two weeks. The plant, which will employ approximately 300 workers, is slated to be operational in March 2003.

Regional Medical Center San Jose is designing a new hospital at its 30-acre site in East San Jose. Plans for the new hospital, developed by HCA Inc., will be submitted to the state within a year, with anticipated approval the following year. The facility will eventually replace San Jose Medical Center, which will close in four years. Regional plans approximately 250 beds in the new facility, which will feature an emergency department with trauma room and helipad, triple the size of its former 7,000-sf unit.

The University of California San Francisco-Parnassus is planning a new $39.7-million seismic replacement laboratory. McCarthy will build the five-story, 86,000-sf facility, which will be completely seismic compliant. Included in the structure, scheduled for June 2004 completion, will be state-of-the-art equipment washing systems and numerous care and surgery facilities. Architect for the project is Flad & Associates of San Francisco.