Project Buzz is a regular round up of contracts, projects and collaborations. This edition includes contract announcements from AGATI, Callison, EMCOR, Perkins Eastman and RTKL.
*AGATI Furniture will furnish the Mikkelsen Library of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. The company’s Brown tables, Curtis chairs, and Roma lounge chairs will be installed at the end of January 2009. The library renovation project is designed by TSP Architecture.
*Callison has been selected to lead the master planning and architectural design of the Hopson International Plaza in Shanghai’s Yangpu District. The two million square foot development features a five-level retail galleria totaling 985,000 sq. ft., a 34-story office tower with 645,600 sq. ft. of office space and a 350-key Hyatt Regency Hotel housed in a 16-story tower.
*EMCOR Group, Inc. subsidiary, Dynalectric Colorado, received a contract from Colorado State University in Pueblo, CO, retaining responsibility for the preconstruction and construction of electrical systems. Dynalectric Colorado also will furnish and install the conduit for telecommunication and security systems.
*Havel Bros., a division of Shambaugh & Son, has received a contract from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. The company will install the building automation system at the new engineering hall, a facility seeking LEED Certification upon completion.
*Perkins Eastman and Korean firms, Posco E&C and Jina Architects, were selected to develop a master plan for Greater Hanoi. The plan will set the development guidelines for the 3,300 sq. km Capital Region. Priority themes in the development of the community include: preserving the City’s historic core and its 1,000-year old architectural legacy; the projected growth of the City from its current population of over six million to more than 10 million inhabitants by 2030; and the need to channel the expected growth into several satellite cities linked by new transit systems connecting each to the historic City core.
*RTKL designed and master planned the replacement hospital for Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, IL. The 560,000 sq. ft., $400 million, all-private room facility focuses on patient-centric care. The shape will maximize caregivers’ ability to provide patient-centric care and the design will facilitate future growth via a flexible operational model that will allow the hospital to expand easily as care needs increase. In the future, all patient rooms can be converted into ICU-capable rooms, and the hospital will be able to adapt full electronic charting more easily because of the technology infrastructure included in this phase. Completion is anticipated in the fall of 2011.
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