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Cuyamaca College Expanding Health Care Courses With New Science-Tech Center

Cuyamaca College recently opened its $25 million science and technology center, the first of three facilities to open this year at the Rancho San Diego campus.

Construction management was handled by Rudolph & Sletten’s San Diego office, project management by the San Diego office of Gafcon Inc., and the project was designed by Spencer/Hoskins associates of Altadena.

The new science and tech center was funded by $19.4 million in state bond funds and $5.6 million in Proposition R funding, the $207 million bond measure approved by local voters in 2002 to upgrade and build new facilities at Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges.

Two more buildings scheduled to be completed next academic year include the $18.9 million student center in October and $44.6 million communication arts building in January 2008.

College President Geraldine Perri said the college is gearing up to be a gateway to the health professions with the opening of the science and technology center last month.

She said the shortage of nurses coupled with the difficulty in getting a seat into much needed science and technology courses has placed a stress on the industry.

“It has permitted Cuyamaca College to expand its program in the sciences and technology,” said Perri.

The college was operating with only three science labs prior to this opening last month. The new facility has nine science labs, 10 computer labs and computer center.

Madelaine Wolfe, a dean at Cuyamaca College, said the shortage of available and accessible prerequisite biology and science courses students take before entering into any allied health education program is impacting the health profession.

“Courses such as anatomy, physiology, chemistry and paramedical microbiology are all in such short supply throughout the region that they form a bottleneck for students on a path to professional careers in allied health,” she said.

The new building also enables the computer science and graphic design programs to expand and modernize in the areas of computer hardware, network administration and telecommunications technology. Enrollment has increased 20 percent in computer and information science and 25 percent in graphic design since 2005.

Perri said the college expects to serve 15,000 students by 2015 with the new facilities. Current enrollment is 8,000.

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Illumina Commits To Long Lease:

BioMed Realty Trust Inc., a San Diego-based real estate investment trust focused on the life sciences industry, held a ground-breaking ceremony May 17 for a new administration and research and development building for Illumina Inc., a University Towne Center developer of kits used genetic research.

The new building, adjacent to Illumina’s existing 109,000-square-foot building on Towne Centre Drive, will be a Class A building totaling 84,000 square feet of office and R & D; space.

The ceremony included presentations from Jay Flatley, chief executive officer of Illumina; Alan Gold, CEO of BioMed Realty Trust; Joe Panetta, CEO of Biocom, a life sciences industry association; and San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders.

Construction is expected to be complete by late 2008. Illumina has committed to a 15-year lease on both buildings.

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Law Offices Upgraded:

Johnson & Jennings General Contracting, a San Diego commercial tenant improvement construction company, recently completed a $1.9 million tenant improvement project for the Del Mar Heights office of Jones Day, an international law firm.

The 20,000-square-foot space is located in a three-story office building on El Camino Real. The scope of work includes building custom secretarial workstations, a video conference center and training facility.

Jeff Hollander, senior associate with Gensler & Associate’s San Diego office, served as architect and space planner for the project. David McCurry, senior project manager of CB Richard Ellis’s San Diego office, served as construction manager.

Jones Day celebrated its new office with an open house May 16.

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Parking Structure Under Way:

San Diego-based T.B. Penick & Sons Inc.’s design/build structural concrete company, Convergent, began concrete work on a two-story $4 million parking structure at Fashion Walk Apartments in Mission Valley.

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