Cisco’s New High-Tech Medical Center Attracts
Attention
Cisco Systems, a multinational corporation that develops
and sells digital networking services, has opened a health care center
on the campus of its headquarters in San Jose, Calif. that uses
state-of-the art technology wired into the $38 million facility. The new
LifeConnections center, which includes fitness and child care programs,
is drawing attention from companies across the country interested in its
design and the way telecommunications equipment is hard-wired into the
building.
Run by an independent medical group, the health center offers optional
primary care, with pediatric, nutritional and other health services for
the 17,000 employees at Cisco’s headquarters, and it provides health
guidance via video teleconferencing for many of the remaining global
employees of the company’s 67,000-person workforce.
Floating Condos Would Ply Mississippi on a
Riverboat
When one thinks of riverboat cruising, Minnesota may not
be the first locale that comes to mind, but St. Paul, Minn. developer
David Nelson has put together an ambitious plan for a floating condo
community that would ply the nation’s waterways, beginning with the
Mississippi River, which flows through St. Paul.
The $106 million project is basically a mixed-use development. It calls
for developing 180 condos, along with restaurants and shops aboard The
Marquette, a riverboat that the developer plans to outfit with a special
energy-efficient engine, the Cyclone. “It essentially burns diesel
fuel cleaner than most engines do,” says Nelson. Wastewater would be
cleaned through the Zeeweed system developed by General Electric, Nelson
says.
MIT and Wisconsin Students Win ULI Hines Urban Design
Contest
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture and Planning, with one member from the University
of Wisconsin School of Business, has won the seventh annual Urban Land
Institute (ULI) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.
The winning design outlines a plan for transit-oriented development and
public space at Alameda Station in Denver. It takes into account
automobile-free transportation and a water-conserving landscape, among
other attributes. The team earned the top prize of
$50,000.
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