High-tech projects have been a significant portion of our work since 1995. Our largest end-users have been International Business Machines (IBM) at both the Burlington, VT and East Fishkill, NY locations, GE Healthcare and Global Foundries. High-tech projects range from Greenfield site construction of buildings, building retrofits and remodels, clean rooms, pipe trestles and bridges. These projects are always demanding and several have utilized the design-assist delivery system to meet the aggressive schedules.

 

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Global Foundries Chip Fabrication Plant, "Fab 2"

Location: Luther Forest Technology Campus, Malta, New York

Description: Fab 2 will be a 300mm wafer manufacturing facility designed for 32/22nm process technologies. The plant will require an approximate $4.5B initial investment, have a 300,000 ft² Class 100 Clean Room, and it is expected to come online some time in 2012. If all goes to plan, Fab 2 will be able to handle 35,000 wafer starts per month once fully ramped, and according to Global Foundries, it will employ over 1400 workers with about 5000+ spin-off jobs being created in the surrounding areas.


Mid February progress photo with CUB building completed on the left and the FAB building under construction on the right.


Mid March progress photo with the bridge being set between the CUB and FAB buildings.

Stone Bridge is fabricating and installing the CUB (Central Utilities Building), approximately 1,800 tons, and partnered with FabArc Steel of Oxford, AL in fabricating the main FAB (Fabrication) building which is approximately 12,000 tons. The project is fast-track construction with demanding schedules beginning erection in late 2009.

General Contractor: M+W Zander Construction Company

 

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GE Healthcare, X-Ray Detector Production Facility

Location: Rensselaer Technology Park, North Greenbush, New York

Description: GE Healthcare, Turner Construction Company - Albany, and Stone Bridge Iron & Steel, Inc., have teamed up in a design-assist delivery system to provide the steel structure for the $135 million, 240,000 ft² building at Rensselaer Technology Park, North Greenbush, New York, that will be home to GE's X-Ray Detector Production Facility. The project is a structural steel framed joist and metal deck project, with very demanding schedules to meet GE's requirement to commission the clean room in time for incoming manufacturing equipment. Completed in mid 2008.

General Contractor: Turner Construction Company

 

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NanoFab 300 East - UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Location: UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, New York

Description: CNSE's world-class Albany NanoTech Complex - a $4.5 billion, 800,000 ft² megaplex that has attracted over 250 global corporate partners, including leading nanoelectronics companies IBM, AMD, SEMATECH, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, ASML and Vistec Lithography, among others - is the most advanced research enterprise at any university in the world, employing more than 2,500 scientists, researchers, engineers, technicians, students and faculty, and housing the only fully-integrated, 300mm wafer, computer chip pilot prototyping and demonstration line within 80,000 ft² of Class 1 capable cleanrooms.

General Contractor: M+W Zander Construction Company

 

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C.E.S.T.M. 300SX Bldg. 500, UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Location: UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, New York

Description: The 300SX project is an addition to the existing building 500, as well as a 35,000 ft² Class 100 cleanroom within the R&D Facility. Workforce training cleanroom labs, an elevated pedestrian bridge, auditorium and conference rooms were also incorporated to create this world-class facility.

Project Features include a 300mm Pilot Manufacturing Facility, a 120,000 ft² business incubator and two, three-level rotundas connected by an elevated pedestrian walkway.

General Contractor: Welliver McGuire

 

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IBM 300mm Wafer Fabrication Plant & 300 mm Annex

Location: East Fishkill, New York

Description: Project consisted of fabricating structural steel, large pipe trestles and bridges, platforms, railing systems and a host of support structures for the 300mm wafer fabrication plant. This project had demanding schedules and over one hundred change orders.

General Contractor: Whiting-Turner

 

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IBM 300mm Wafer Fabrication Plant & 300 mm Annex Cleanroom Expansion

Location: East Fishkill, New York

Description: Project consisted of fabricating and installing structural steel platforms, large pipe rack systems, duct support systems, stair and railing systems and specialty grating systems. This project had demanding schedules and numerous dynamic design changes throughout the construction cycle.

General Contractor: Whiting-Turner

 

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IBM Chip Manufacturing Expansion

Location: Essex Junction, Vermont

Description: Dozens of projects for the continuing expansions of the manufacturing facility over several years. Projects consisted of platforms, small buildings and structures, stairs and railing systems and grating systems.

General Contractor: C.S.E. Erectors

 

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