Research and Development

Laboratories for the 21st CenturySeptember 6-8, 2000Renaissance Parc 55 HotelSan Francisco, California

Nortel Networks has finished renovating its 76,000-sf office and R&D facility in Andover. The $1.7 million project was carried out by Spaulding & Slye Colliers of Boston.

Fox Chase Cancer Center has plans for two new centralized scientific facilities to study genomics and bioinformatics. Grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia and the Rippel Foundation of New Jersey will help to fund the projects.

Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories has a new $20 million, 50,000-sf facility for biological production and research in Marietta. The company is also building a manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. The construction manager for both projects is Barclay White Inc. of Philadelphia.

George Mason University's Fairfax campus may be the recipient of $31 million from the state's proposed 2000-2002 budget. Funds would be used to complete capital improvements already begun at the campus.

A $22 million, 100,000-sf project at the Manassas campus awaits funding as well. This project would construct conference rooms and classrooms for existing biotech and research facilities.

Canon U.S.A. Inc. opened its new 166,000-sf regional headquarters in November 1999. The facility houses 160 employees for Canon's regional R&D headquarters, as well as its national headquarters for the semiconductor equipment divions, which includes a cleanroom for R&D on new products.

Architect on the project was C.A.S. Architects Inc. based in Mountain View, Calif. The Milpitas, Calif., firm of Devcon Construction Inc. built the facility. Canon is based in Lake Success, NY.

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.

Virginia Tech may receive $12 million in funding from the proposed state budget to build a biomedical center and establish a biotech research center. The University of Virginia is also targeted in the proposed budget for $2.5 million to convert an abandoned hospital to a technology center at its Wise Campus.

Stanford University has a new four-story Center for Clinical Science Research, designed by Ove Arup & Partners of San Francisco to withstand a major earthquake. The facility incorporates base isolators designed by Earthquake Protection Systems Inc. of Richmond, Calif.

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is scheduled to open its new $120 million, 300,000-sf campus in Palo Alto in September. The project consists of two buildings that accommodate the 140-doctor medical group, the research division, and the educational outreach group.

Ellerbe Becket of Minneapolis and RMW Architecture and Interior Design of San Francisco designed the facility; Swinerton Inc. of San Francisco was the general contractor.

Lucent Technologies' Titania division has completed construction of a new 65,000-sf building at the Carlsbad Research Center to house labs, a cleanroom, offices and support space for Lucent Power Systems. The designer of the project is Smith Consulting Architects of San Diego, Calif.

Ericsson Inc. may expand operations at its 118-acre campus in Research Triangle Park following the liquidation of its real estate holdings around the world. The RTP site houses the company's mobile phone R&D unit.

EMD Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Germany-based Merck KgaA, is building a 148,000-sf marketing, sales, and clinical research facility in Durham. The Indra Group is the developer of the project.

Siemens Electromechanical Components Inc. opened a new three-story, 100,000-sf headquarters in July at the Westpark Office Center. R&D, customer service reps, and corporate executives are housed at the new facility constructed by Group VI Corp. of Stockbridge.

Serono Laboratories Inc., based in Norwell, Mass., plans to consolidate its offices and labs at a new $20 million, 200,000-sf headquarters that will straddle the town line between Hingham and Rockland. A.W. Perry Inc. of Boston is the developer on the project. Construction has not yet begun, but move-in is scheduled for late 2000.

Serono Labs is a drug-development company and a subsidiary of Ares-Serono Group SA of Geneva, Switz.