Industry News

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, working with project manager and builder McCarthy, has completed its new $55-million Life Science and High Technology Center. The biotech project included construction of a 145,000-sf lab building to house 220 life scientists. With three stories above grade and one below, the building also features a three-story atrium, and an attached 12,000-sf learning center. Architects for the project were Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) and Lockwood Greene, both of St. Louis.

Cornell University has selected McCarthy to provide construction management and general contracting services on Duffield Hall, a nanotechnology research and teaching facility now under construction. The $42-million project, a joint venture with Welliver McGuire of Elmira, N.Y., will provide state-of-the-art accommodations for the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility--the oldest federally supported nanotechnology center.

Children’s Hospital of San Diego is installing a 3.4-megawatt co-generation system that will supply approximately 98% of the 200-bed hospital’s power. The system, funded in part by a $2-million loan from the California Energy Commission, will be fueled by natural gas. The generation process will produce 99% of the heat needed for space heating, sterilization, and hot water.

Advancis Pharmaceutical has broken ground on a lab, office, and manufacturing facility for drug development in Germantown. Advancis, based in Germantown, expects the 62,000-sf facility to reach completion in early 2003.

The Sacramento office of McCarthy Building Companies has completed construction on the $19-million Mary Stuart Rogers Educational Services Gateway Building at California State University, Stanislaus (CSUS) in Turlock. This 130,000-sf student services building and conference center was designed by architect RSK (Rollings Suarez Kuehne Associates) of San Francisco.