Market Report: Upstate New York
...Coop,” because it looks like a chicken coop, angled to take advantage of Buffalo’s cool climate. The building will use 100% outside air to cool the servers, so 90% of the energy used by the center will power servers, compared to an industry average of 50%.
At the other end of the state in Malta, about 15 mi north of Albany, M+W Zander US Operations of Chicago, broke ground in June on a $4.2-billion, 1.2-million-sq-ft, four-story chip-fabrication facility for GlobalFoundries, a partnership between Advanced Micro Devices of Sunnyvale and two Abu Dhabi investment funds. Sitework includes moving about 1 million cu yds of sandy soil.
The structural-steel structure with concrete supporting walls sits on a 3-ft-thick, concrete mat foundation. The complex will include about 260,000 sq ft for clean rooms for chip production, and a 220,000-sq-ft administrative building. Glass and precast will clad the exterior.
Alan Asadoorian, vice president and director of construction for M+W Zander US Operations, would not release construction costs, but says they were more than the $600 million reported in New York Construction previously.
Asadoorian anticipates construction to last two to 2.5 years, with an additional year to 1.5 years expected to install the processing equipment.
K-12 education Phase three of a five-phase, $1-billion-plus Buffalo Public Schools reconstruction program, overseen by LPCiminelli, has wrapped up. Phase four is in design, and the company expects construction to start in October. Legislation passed this year will fund phase five. The program will complete in 2013.
“Across the whole district, all schools will have received some upgrades,” Schuler says.
Cannon Design designed the $30-million redevelopment of South Park High School, as part of the fourth phase of the school rehabilitation program. The project includes a new gymnasium addition, two health classrooms and restoration of main entrance doors. An exterior materials palette of cast stone, brick and vertically mullioned curtain wall harmonizes with the historic building’s grand legacy.
For the Lewiston-Porter Central School District in Youngstown, N.Y., Cannon Design is providing construction management services for a year-long, $13-million construction and renovation program for the district’s four schools.
Sano-Rubin Construction Services of Albany began a $26.9-million districtwide building program this spring for Guilderland Central School District in Guilderland, N.Y. The work includes renovations and alterations to five elementary schools.
Higher education The University at Buffalo State University of New York has a $360-million capital-improvement...
