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Washington University's John M. Olin School of Business has selected Cambridge-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates (TK&A) to program and develop a conceptual design for expansion. Simon Hall is slated to be reprogrammed to increase building efficiency and to provide needed administrative and study facilities. The 157,000-sf Earth and Planetary Sciences building at Washington University will also be designed by TK&A. 

Wartburg College is expanding and renovating Becker Hall of Science. Currently housing the departments of biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics, the existing 50,000-sf Becker Hall will be renovated to provide office, storage, and classroom facilities. The building currently houses instructional laboratories, a greenhouse, an animal room, a 100-seat auditorium, computer rooms and classrooms. The 55,000-sf addition will contain an auditorium, laboratories, and state-of-the-art technology for flexible classrooms/seminar rooms.

Detroit-based HarleyEllis broke ground on Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 Nuclear Training Center in April 2001. Located at the Fermi 2 Power Plant in Newport, the $10 million building will provide hands-on large equipment training as well as consolidating existing training facilities. The development encompasses 60,000-sf of conference and training space. The first floor is dedicated to classroom space and nuclear power vocational training with electrical, mechanical, and large-scale simulation labs and classrooms.

The 10th University of California campus will be located in Merced in the Central Valley of California. Design and construction of the 2,000-acre site will be managed in a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff and The JCM Group. The campus will be capable of accommodating 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students at full build-out.

The University of Washington broke ground on a new $80 million Law School building in May 2001. Construction of the 196,000-sf, four-story building will begin in September and is slated for completion in summer of 2003. Named the William H. Gates Hall, the facility will include a 10,000-sf reading room with stacks occupying approximately 40,000 sf. The building will also feature a 170-person classroom equipped as a trial court, law clinics, seminar rooms, additional instructional areas, as well as offices for staff, faculty, and graduate students.