Industry News

Jon Wayne Construction of San Diego expects to move into its new two-story, 7,000-sf headquarters in November. The build-to-suit was constructed in 10 hours and 17 minutes using precast concrete wall panels. San Diego-based Capstone Industries installed the PreFast panels at the new headquarters designed by Tim Golba.

San Diego State University plans to break ground in March on two six-story residence towers and a two-story dining/commons facility. The residence halls will total 200,000 sf. Douglas E. Barnhart Inc. of San Diego won the design-build contract.

General Motors has awarded a team comprised of Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz Architects, Ove Arup and Partners (engineering), and Hargreaves Associates (landscape) to remodel their U.S. car and truck design headquarters where GM will consolidate its U.S. design staff. The project will involve demolition, renovation and new construction, resulting in a total of nine million sf.

University of California, San Francisco, broke ground in October 1999 on a $1.5 billion biotechnology campus at a 303-acre site in Mission Bay, where Stanford University plans to break ground in 2000 on its own $200 million, 225,000-sf Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering-Mission Bay.

Cree Research Inc. is expanding its LED manufacturing capacity with the construction of a 125,000-sf facility slated for completion in late 2000. The company recently completed a 42,000-sf production and administration addition.