Westinghouse Electric Co. is adding new employees so fast that it's now weighing options for additional real estate space to house them.
The expanding nuclear company, which isn't scheduled to move into the first buildings at its new office campus in Cranberry until 2009, is considering whether or not it will need about 50,000-square-feet of additional space, Vaughn Gilbert, a company spokesman, said Friday.
"The business is growing, and we are evaluating if we need additional space," Gilbert said. "But at this point, we don't know exactly how much or where it will be."
The company, whose headquarters in Monroeville is cramped, has hired the commercial real estate firm of Jones Lang LaSalle in Pittsburgh to spearhead the search.
Representatives there could not be reached for comment.
As reported, growth in its nuclear plant business has prompted Westinghouse to hire nearly 3,000 people worldwide over the past three years. About 40 percent of the company's 10,000-person workforce is in Western Pennsylvania.
In an interview in June, Aris Candris, Westinghouse's new CEO, said China wants to have 100 of the company's nuclear reactors in operation or under construction by 2020 -- more than double what was anticipated.
He said plans for domestic reactor construction are moving briskly.
About 2,000 Monroeville employees are expected to start relocating to the company's new headquarters in Cranberry in June.
Two months ago, about 350 instrumentation and control employees moved to rented space in Cranberry, adjacent to the new Westinghouse headquarters under construction.
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