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UC Merced, a new 2,000-acre campus
Planning and Designing is underway for UC Merced, a new 2,000-acre campus located in California. This new $250-million research university will use digital technology to create an educational network for students in the San Joaquin Valley. Completion is scheduled for 2004.
The FDA proceeds with a strategy for The Reuse of Single Use Devices
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to have a guide in place by January 2001 for hospitals on "The Policy of the Reuse of Single Use Devices".
The strategy proposes the following:-to treat hospitals that reprocess single use devices in the same way it treats device manufactures
-to require submission of premarketing data as if reprocessors were seeking to market device for the first time
-to require reprocessors to label single use devices and provide instructions for use.
ONI Systems Plans New Campus in South San Jose
ONI Systems has plans for a new 455,000-sf, five-building corporate headquarters on 2.5 acres in South San Jose. The optical networking equipment vendor currently employs 400 at its operations in North San Jose.
Fairchild Semiconductor's New Carlsbad Office
Fairchild Semiconductor has a new $440,000 facility at the Palomar Crest Corporate Center in Carlsbad, Calif. The building, which includes private offices, conference rooms, and computer labs, was designed by Cooper Roberts Bennett Commercial Design of San Diego. Fairchild has hired San Diego-based Pacific Interior Systems to build out 25,000 sf of office space at the new facility.
Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center Renovation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, has begun a $163 million renovation and expansion of the hospitals that merged in 1996. The four-year project has begun with the renovation of 60 post partum rooms to accommodate private showers, VCRs, a sleep chair and refrigerator, all of which is scheduled for completion by the end of summer 2000.