Finfrock Construction, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Skanska USA to design and build the new parking garage for Nemours Children’s Hospital at Lake Nona’s medical city.  The garage will provide parking for 900 cars and 7 motorcycles on ground plus four elevated levels.  As the design-builder for the garage Finfrock worked with the hospital’s architect and its construction manager Skanska to design the garage to compliment the 620,000 SF hospital currently under construction.  Finfrock provided the most cost efficient design for the footprint and will construct the project within Nemours budget.   Precast concrete for the project will be provided by Finfrock Industries and will include pigmented concrete clad exterior structural panels.  The project is expected to be complete in summer of 2010.

Gameday Management Group received a Silver Award in the Event Services category at the 2009 SportBusiness Sports Event Management Awards.  The company was honored for excellence in its transportation management services during Super Bowl XLIII. The black-tie awards ceremony was Nov. 10 at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.  

Green Courte Partners, a private equity real estate investment firm targeting niche sectors, has promoted both Ami A. Shah and Marnie C. Helfand to Vice President.  Shah will continue and expand upon her existing role within the firm’s Retail Asset Management group. Helfand will do likewise within its Capital Markets group.

Genetec announced that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has selected Omnicast, its IP video surveillance solution, as the managing platform for the perimeter intrusion detection system (PIDS) of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Omnicast is intended to be used in conjunction with other state-of-the-art security technology to secure several official Olympic sites and sporting venues. A few features of the system that interested the RCMP were its network-based open architecture, which allows for infrastructure flexibility and choice of best-of-breed hardware, as well as its interactive alarm management and advanced graphical mapping capabilities.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Australia has successfully deployed the Genetec Omnicast IP video surveillance and the Synergis IP access control solution to protect the historic sporting venue and the 100,000 sports enthusiasts who visit the stadium on a regular basis. With further expansion on the horizon, Omnicast is managing about 400 Pelco cameras in tandem with Synergis, which controls more 70 back-of-the-house doors equipped with HID readers. The successful deployment of the new integrated system was made possible by the collaborative involvement of Genetec’s Australian distributor, Open Platform Systems, and Integrators Australia.

Osram Opto Semiconductors has completed the construction and process-testing phases for the world's most modern LED chip production plant, located in Penang, Malaysia. Regular production of LED chips has now commenced at the plant. These 4-inch-wafer-based indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductor chips form the basis for the blue, green and white LEDs used primarily in architectural and general lighting, for display backlighting, and in mobile terminal devices. The Penang facility makes Osram the first LED manufacturer with high-volume chip production facilities in both Europe (Regensburg, Germany) and Asia.