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billion chip fab marked the starg ofa two-year-long construction process for the Sunnyvale, Calif., company. Abourt a dozen large pieces of equipmengt arrived Monday on the sitefor ground-clearinfg work that is scheduled to start this week. As many as 1,609 workers will be employed duringthe two-yeatr construction process. The chip fab is expectecd to open in 2012 andemploy 1,40p0 people when it’s running at full capacitu in 2014. The 1.3-million-square-foot manufacturing facility—located on 223 acresz in the in Malta— is the park’sd first tenant. “Having our anchor makeas Luther Forest a realtech campus.
Before, we had infrastructure,” said Michae Relyea, president of Luther Forest. Initially, about 100 people will work on theGlobalFoundries “We’ll work in the several-hundred range unti the worst of winter,” said Rick Whitney, president of ’s U.S. Operations. Germany-based M+W Zander is the project’s generakl manager. “Those numbers will ramp up over the next six to nine he said. More than 1,000 people will be workingv on the project a yearfrom now. M+W Zander is preparing to award the contract forsteel work, Whitneyg said.
Separate bid packages to erect steel forthe 800,0000-square-foort building and neighboring utility building were sent to 12 Of the five companies that two are local, one is a partnershi p with a local company and two are Whitney declined to disclose the priced ranges of those bids. of Gloversville won the contractg for the site development The cost of that project is estimateds atabout $15 million. Foundation work will be bid in the next few Whitney said. Steel work should begin in August.