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San Francisco's Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz (KMD), along with consulting engineers Ove Arup, has completed a campus renovation plan as well as the design of a new 960,000-square-foot facility for the vehicle engineering center (VEC) at General Motors' campus in Southeast Michigan. The historic campus, called the Warren Technical Center, was originally designed by Eero Saarinen nearly 50 years ago, and KMD's updated master plan preserves the legacy of Saarinen's work while creating a more flexible, interactive, high-tech environment. The most highly visible new feature will be a huge VEC addition, an eight-story structure (below) that will rise next to a manmade lake. GM is investing $1 billion in the Warren campus to consolidate its engineering functions. Site preparation has begun for the project and the estimated completion date for the VEC tower is August 2001, with the renovation of existing VEC portions of the VEC scheduled for April 2002.