Industry News

Medimmune has selected the Washington office of HOK, P.C., to provide site planning, architecture, and interior and graphic design for Phase 1 of  its new corporate headquarters at a 25-acre site in Gaithersburg. The campus-style biotechnology complex will include a 60,000-sf R&D facility on three levels and a five-level, 150,000-sf administrative facility, connected by a covered walkway.

The Southeast Texas BioTechnology Park, a $633 million project announced in February, is seeking funds to continue. The 15-building complex, to be built over 20 years, is backed by a coalition including institutions at the Texas Medical Center, biotechnology companies, professional groups, and governmental entities.

The Clark R. Bavin National Forensic Laboratory in Ashland is planning a 37,000-sf addition and renovation. It is the only comprehensive full-service wildlife crime lab in the world, and serves an international purpose by meeting the forensic needs of wildlife agencies globally. HERA Inc. of St. Louis is responsible for laboratory programming for the addition that will supplement the existing 23,000-sf crime lab facility. HarleyEllis in Southfield, Mich., is the architect and engineer.

Investigen, an Alameda, Calif.-based biotechnology company, plans to build a 27,000-sf facility on a 1.8-acre site at the North Shore Business Park in Hercules. Investigen expects to occupy 17,000 sf of the structure, subleasing the remaining 17,000 sf.

The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is planning a new state-of-the-art forensic biology laboratory. The 322,000-gsf, state-of-the-art DNA facility will consolidate disconnected forensic activities conducted at separate sites into one new 12-story facility at Bellevue Hospital Center. HERA Inc.   of St. Louis is providing forensic lab design. Perkins Eastman Architects in association with LSGM Architects in New York are the architects for the project.