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SDSU To Build Cogeneration Plant
San Diego State University is planning to break ground on a new 14-megawatt energy cogeneration plant in conjunction with a campuswide conservation effort. Design of the $20 million facility will is scheduled to begin in May 2001 with construction beginning in summer. Expected to be online by summer of 2002, the plant is a long-term solution to rising energy costs. Replacing the existing 3-megawatt cogeneration plant that supplies only a third of the university's energy, the new plant will generate enough electricity for the entire campus.
Alfred E. Smith Building Rehabilitation Planned
The historic Alfred E. Smith building in Albany, N.Y. is slated for rehabilitation by New York architecture and engineering firm WASA. Built between 1926 and 1930, the 32-story Smith building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Under the aegis of the State Office of General Services of New York, the comprehensive $68 million modernization project aims to create a technologically current, energy conscious and flexible office environment in the historic structure.
University of Vt College of Medicine Breaks Ground on Renaissance Project
University of Vermont College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care have broken ground on the Renaissance Project, a $173.4 million project uniting the two institutions in education, research, and patient care. The project includes construction of a new Education and Conference Center with a medical library, lecture hall, auditorium, classrooms, and study areas for small groups. The project will relocate outpatient specialty clinics from Fletcher Allen's University Health Campus to a new Ambulatory Care Center.
University of Pennsylvania Completes Campus Master Plan
The University of Pennsylvania Riverview Campus master plan was recently completed by Cambridge-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates. The 20-acre Philadelphia Civic Center site will be transformed into a mixed-use healthcare and research center serving the needs of the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.
Cal Poly Pomona Completes Engineering Lab Replacement Project
California Polytechnic University, Pomona is completing construction of the Engineering Laboratory Replacement Project phase two--a $20 million, two-story, 117,900-sf facility accommodating engineering labs, classrooms, and offices. Nielsen Dillingham Builders of San Diego is in charge of construction. Architect for the project is Leo A. Daly of Omaha, Neb. The civil engineer is Boyle Engineering of Newport Beach, Calif.