Companies Invest in UNH's New Engineering Building
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By Anonymous  Alumni, businesses and industry have contributed more than $3 million so far to the University of New Hampshire's Kingsbury Hall renovation and expansion project, according to the UNH Foundation.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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LOS ANGELES -- To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California at Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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I.B.M. plans to invest $250 million over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - From Stanford University on the West Coast to the Ivy League schools of the Northeast, U.S. universities are in the grip of a building boom that looks set to extend well into 2009.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is planning a major expansion of its engineering program, including a 67 percent increase in the size of the faculty and the possible establishment of a separate school.
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Four buildings are up and occupied. Three more buildings are under construction. Another is on the drawing board. Three other projects are on a waiting list.
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When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Chevy Chase announced in 2002 that it would bring some of the world's top scientists to a sleek new research center in Loudoun County, it was hailed as an economic boon, perhaps planting the seed for a new biomedical corridor.
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A $250,000 demonstration project that produces hydrogen energy to provide backup lighting and warmth at the Chewonki Foundation's environmental education center was hailed at its unveiling Monday as the first of its kind in the nation.
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New corporate entity and development center
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Three companies this week proposed using two sites on the South Boston Waterfront for large-scale maritime or industrial projects.
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A company is set up to encourage students to be entrepreneurs when they leave university.
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The software company's investments are showing some promise.
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On Thursday, the company announced it will invest $12 million over the next five years in a new research and development center in Tokyo.
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Construction of the third laboratory building in Boston University's BioSquare life sciences research complex is underway, the first such building there to be designed for academic research and commercial businesses. To lure for-profit biotechnology companies, the $53 million, 160,000-square-foot building at 670 Albany St. has a sleek contemporary look, an energy-efficient interior, and a for-profit developer, Spaulding &amp; Slye Colliers.
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French electricity group EDF said it had awarded construction contracts of more than 650 million euros (830 million dollars) for work on a new nuclear power plant in northern France.
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Company's recent acquisition will improve its competitive advantages.