Industry News

ADCS Inc., a hi-tech company specializing in data/document capture and conversion, has contracted Smith Consulting Architects for architecture and interior design of a 94,000-sf, two-story office building in the Parwkay Business Center in Poway. Construction of the $7.9 million project is scheduled to begin in November with completion expected in March 2002. The building will feature a photovoltaic solar collection as part of its state-of-the-art energy saving system.

HarleyEllis, in conjunction with HERA, Inc. of Saint Louis, Mo., is assessing the viability of a building expansion and renovation for Westchester County's Department of Laboratories and Research in Valhalla, New York. The $9.1 million project will enhance laboratory capabilities and technology. 

Western Michigan University is building a 50,000-sf Paper Technology Pilot Plant at its new Business-Technology-Research Park. Scheduled for completion in December 2001,  it will be the first in a series of new buildings that will comprise the new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Complex. Architect for the pilot plant is HarleyEllis, with design consultant Rosetti Architects of Birmingham, Mich.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s plans for a new five-building campus in Alexandria’s Carlyle development have been approved, and construction is slated to begin by year’s end. The 2.3 million-sf project will be developed by LCOR, with Turner Construction as the general contractor. The complex will accommodate 7,100 employees. Completion is expected early in 2005.

AOL is planning a 400,000-sf expansion on its 100-acre Loudon County campus in Dulles, Virginia.