Industry News

Environmental Defense, a nonprofit headquartered in New York, has relocated its consolidated Washington staff to a 19,000-sf “green” office in Washington. The consolidation project team included Staubach, architects Envision Design and Rand Construction.

Ground was broken on Inova Fairfax Hospital's new heart institute in earlly April. The $122-million, 280,000-sf Falls Church facility will be the first center devoted to treating cardiac disease in the Washington area. The four-story facility will be built by contractor Turner Construction and is slated for completion in spring of 2004. The 656-bed hospital will add an additional 156 beds, increase its cardiac operating room count from four to six, and gain additional electrophysiology and catheterization lab facilities.

The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) has proposed the construction of the University of Texas Sports Science Institute, a world-class, multi-disciplinary research center for sports science. In addition to UTHSC, the project would be sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at San Antonio. The San Antonio campus would emphasize education, research, medicine, and psychology as they relate to sports; and community wellness. The project is awaiting approval in May from the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, plans to expand its Shady Grove satellite campus in Rockville with a 130,000-sf building, the third at the 35-acre site. The facility is to house classrooms, administrative offices, and computer labs, as well as outside tenants who work or partner with the University. Spaulding & Slye Colliers was selected by the University to develop the new structure. Future expansion at the site will also be planned by the company.

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a nonprofit bioproducts resource center, is planning a $5-million expansion of its Prince William County facilities.