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Wyeth-Ayerst has commissioned Ewing Cole Cherry Brott of Philadelphia in collaboration with Fluor Daniel to provide architecture and engineering services for a new vaccine development center. The building will consolidate the company’s vaccine development centers currently located throughout the United States, reducing product development and manufacturing cycle time. It will include development process labs, analytical labs, various levels of biocontainment space, a research library, conference center, offices, and an employee cafeteria.

ARAMARK today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ServiceMaster Management Services, the facility services business of ServiceMaster.

Swarthmore College is planning a $50 million expansion designed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott of Boston and built by contractor Barclay White Skanska USA Inc. of Blue Bell, Pa. $40 million will be spent on a total of 140,000 sf in additions and renovations to Science Complex buildings. The project involves construction of a new 70,000-sf facility and renovation of 70,000 sf in two existing buildings. The project began in June 2001 and is slated for completion in June of 2004.  

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is planning a new 16-researcher R&D lab for pharmaceutical synthesis in Richmond's Virginia Biotechnology Research Park. Over the next five years, Boehringer plans to invest $2.5 million in the facility. Based in Germany, Boehringer's U.S. headquarters are in Connecticut.

The University of California-Davis, the world leader in wine science, will be spending $25 million of a $35 million grant to build the new Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. Replacing buildings 50 years old, the institute will house classrooms, food processing and winery buildings. The remaining $10 million will fund a theater complex already under construction, to be named the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The center is slated for completion in October 2002.