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Vanderbilt Project Unites Engineering Disciplines
Vanderbilt University recently broke ground for the new Jacobs Hall Addition and Renovation, a $28 million, three-story, 150,000-sf facility that will unite the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, giving the School of Engineering a new campus identity. Classrooms, lecture halls, shop space and indoor and outdoor public gathering spaces will be located on the ground floor. Teaching and research labs will be located on the upper floors.
MIT Breaks Ground on Sports and Fitness Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) broke ground in late October 2000 on a new $45-million Sports and Fitness Center designed by the architectural firms of Roche & Dinkeloo and Sasaki Associates. The MIT Center will include an Olympic-class pool and a separate teaching pool; a state-of-the-art health-fitness center; a multi-activity court for volleyball, aerobics, recreational basketball, in-line hockey, and other activities; six squash courts; a sports medicine center; administrative offices; and other support facilities.
CSU Hayward Plans Business and Technology Center
California State University-Hayward (CSUH) is raising money for the construction of a new $20-million Business and Technology Center—a three-story, 100,000-sf facility to house the School of Business and Economics.
Alpha Therapeutics Designs Lab Expansion
Alpha Therapeutics Corporation has awarded a contract to Ware & Malcomb Architects of Woodland Hills, Calif., for the design of the tenant improvement methods validation development laboratory expansion. The project includes the design and build out of a full new methods development lab space located within the company’s Quality Control facility. Construction of the project will complete the company’s latest development of existing methods validation development facilities for their various pharmaceutical biological products.
TJU Delays Cancer Center Construction
Thomas Jefferson University’s planned $140-million Kimmel Cancer Center, a cancer treatment and research center, will be postponed for one year as the university raises funds for the project and searches for a solution to a potentially critical parking situation envisioned when a 400-car parking garage is demolished to make way for the new center. The planned 380,000-sf structure, designed by the architectural firm of Perkins & Will of Chicago, will reach 20 stories and include underground parking spaces for 200 cars.