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Indian School of Business Under Construction in Hyderabad
The Indian School of Business is under construction in Hyderabad, the "Silicon Valley" of India. The campus encompasses 660,000 sf and is located on 250 acres. Each classroom will be fully wired, with a computer and video conferencing capability at each desk. The communications network will be set up to ensure instant global connectivity. The school will accommodate a large number of formal and informal break-out space. John Portman & Associates designed the school, which will be the first fully air conditioned school in India.
FDA Breaks Ground for New HQ and Lab at White Oak
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consolidated headquarters and laboratory campus broke ground recently at White Oak, a base realignment and closure site formerly home to the Naval Laboratory campus. The FDA, currently housed in more than 40 buildings at 18 different locations in the Washington, D.C., region will use 130 acres of the 670-acre campus.
BioReliance Opens Large-Scale Manufacturing Facility
BioReliance opened a new $24 million, $58,000-sf facility in late September 2000 to provide large-scale, viral gene therapy and drug manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The company will provide bulk manufacturing of the human smallpox vaccine for OraVax, a Cambridge, Mass., biopharmaceutical firm that was recently awarded a $343 million contract for the vaccine by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Telcordia Technologies Expands in Piscataway
Telcordia Technologies Inc. has broken ground on a new 231,000-sf office building at Telcordia's Raritan River facility in Piscataway. Kling Lindquist of Philadelphia is providing architectural, engineering, and interior design services, as well as a master plan review for the structure. Bovis Lend Lease is the construction manager on the project. Approximately 1,100 administrative and technical personnel may occupy the three-story corporate facility, which will be connected to adjacent buildings via second-story connector bridges.
Level 3 Communications Plans Data Center for D.C.
Level 3 Communications, based in Broomfield, Colo., has plans for an 816,000-sf data center in Washington D.C. at a site that is presently a paved parking lot. Level 3, which provides a fiber-optic network based on Internet protocol, has previously built data centers ranging from 3,000 sf to 60,000 sf. The firm plans to co-locate other Internet-focused companies at the new facility.