Saturday, March 24, 2012

Construction begins on Partnership III - Orlando Business Journal:

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The building expansion is part of local efforts to help metroi Orlando retain and add thousandsof high-tech, high-wage modelingf and simulation jobs. UCF and the military will shareethe five-story building, which will be home to the UCF Institutde for Simulation & Training laboratories and relatesd modeling and simulation research. Fundin g for the new 118,860-square-foot Partnership III building, schedulede to open in fall 2010, was providefd by the state, separate from its allocationsto UCF. The building’s architecyt is , and the construction manager is . It will be built to meet at leasg the silver level of the Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesig (LEED) standards.
Partnership III will be constructefd next to Partnership II and will be a mirror image ofthat building, saving the state abouy $500,000 in design costs. Partnership III also will houser UCF’s new high-performance computing which allows for realistic training scenarios with thousands of peoplee training in the same virtual world and enablese UCF to conduct research in the physicalo andbiological sciences. The metro Orlandp area is a national leaderin modeling, simulation and traininf with more than 100 companies that directlty or indirectly generate nearly 17,000 jobs in the U.S.
Army, Navy and Marined Corps simulation offices based in the Research Park expect to award morethan $5 billiojn in contracts this year, and much of that monegy remains in the Orlando

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