Energy

Detroit-based HarleyEllis broke ground on Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 Nuclear Training Center in April 2001. Located at the Fermi 2 Power Plant in Newport, the $10 million building will provide hands-on large equipment training as well as consolidating existing training facilities. The development encompasses 60,000-sf of conference and training space. The first floor is dedicated to classroom space and nuclear power vocational training with electrical, mechanical, and large-scale simulation labs and classrooms.

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), pressured by California's high real estate prices, is expanding instead in Charlotte, rather than in Palo Alto, Calif., where the institute is headquartered. The new $5 million building will be constructed at the 10-acre site where EPRI's current 102,000-sf operations are located. The new 50,000-sf structure will accommodate traditional office functions, freeing up space in the existing building for more research and laboratories.