Southern California powerhouse Matt Construction Corp. has been selected as general contractor to build the first phase of the $300 million Nvidia Corp. campus in Santa Clara. The company displaces Webcor, which had been announced in February as the general contractor for the first 500,000 square feet of a one million square-foot development. Nvidia proposes a two-building campus of matching triangles characterized most obviously by their massive expanse: 250,000 contiguous square feet on each of four floors. It is slated to accommodate 2,500 workers on 25 acres the company acquired in … [Read more...]

World citizen Uday Dandavate is one chief executive whose company won’t occupy a campus and who would never advise anyone else to build one. Trained in industrial design at the Ohio State University with a focus on learning methods and tools from psychology, anthropology and communications theory, Dandavate advises corporate America. His clients include Samsung, Microsoft, Motorola, Intel, Honda, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson Controls, Kodak and Pepsi. SonicRim, his company, helps companies see how workers and customers experience their culture and products. “Whenever our customers want to add … [Read more...]