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Amherst College has selected Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott of Boston to design two new freshman dormitories on the College campus. The new dorms will be sited where the existing James and Stearns residential halls are located. The College has also assigned the company the conversion of its Pratt Geology Museum to a residence hall.

The City of Antioch has granted Kaiser Permanente approval to develop a new 6-building medical office campus in the summer of 2002. The facility is scheduled for completion in September 2003. The 78-acre complex could accommodate a hospital which, if approved, could begin construction in 2006. The campus will feature a $30 million, 60,500-sf medical outpatient center housing facilities for a staff of 300 and 38 physicians. Kaiser's existing building in Antioch is an outpatient medical office totalling 120,000 sf.    

Stanford University’s Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science began construction in October 2001. The 504,000-sf, $146-million collaborative science building is scheduled for occupancy in 2003. The facility provides generic space for interdisciplinary projects and will accommodate approximately 50 faculty.

Interior construction of BEA Systems' world headquarters in Burlington was recently completed by Spaulding & Slye Colliers of Boston. Boston architect Spagnolo/Gisness & Associates designed the 93,000-sf facility, with Lexington-based AHA Consulting providing engineering services. BEA Systems creates electronic commerce software.

The New York office of Turner Construction Company was awarded a $29 million contract to renovate seven floors of an existing building at the Brooklyn Army Terminal by the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Turner is the construction manager for the 434,000-sf project, and also provided precontruction services to the owner. The architect is LZA Associates of New York City. Construction is scheduled for completion in April 2003.