BOSTON — The City of Boston recently announced plans for a new $261 million facility to serve students of two deteriorating urban high schools. If built, the shared structure will be the most expensive public school ever constructed in the state.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s (UF) Clinical and Translational Research Building recently opened in Gainesville.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Wake County voters in North Carolina approved an $810 million school construction bond on Oct. 8. The bond, which will raise taxes, is necessary to keep up with the county’s public school enrollment growth and was approved by a 15-percentage point margin, according to News Observer.
COMMERCE, Texas — Pittsburg-based WTW Architects is set to design the expansion of Texas A&M University-Commerce’s Sam Rayburn Student Center in Commerce, Texas. The firm completed the student center back in 2009, and since the university was so pleased with their work, they have been selected to continue the expansion.
Kimball Office welcomes Bob Pastirjak as its new Southern California region manager. As region manager, Pastirjak will be responsible for the sales and marketing efforts of all Kimball Office sales personnel within the company’s Southern California geographic region. His office will be located in the Kimball Office showroom in Los Angeles.
Chicago-based ASSA ABLOY announced that Corbin Russwin Access 700 and SARGENT Passport 1000 IP-enabled campus access control locks now include HID multiCLASS SE technology. As a result, the Access 700 PIP1 and Passport 1000 P1 Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Access 700 PWI1 and Passport 1000 P2 WiFi locks now provide simultaneous support for multiple credential technologies and NFC mobile access, in addition to their existing magnetic stripe and PIN code capabilities, according to the company.
