SUNNYVALE — Intuitive Surgical, one of the big players in the advanced medical equipment sector, has widened its Silicon Valley expansion efforts with the purchase of an office building in Sunnyvale.

The high-tech company paid $30.4 million in cash on March 5 for a more than three-decade-old building about two blocks from its headquarters on Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, according to Santa Clara County property records.

“We have sought to purchase contiguous properties to enable possible future expansion when or if needed,” said Peper Long, a spokeswoman for Intuitive Surgical.

The company’s purchase of the 47,000-square-foot building at 818 Kifer Road, just east of Wolfe Road, comes on the heels of recent expansion efforts in the vicinity of its head offices. A few weeks ago, Intuitive Surgical leased 210,000 square feet of offices in Santa Clara from The Sobrato Organization. The deal with Sobrato enabled Intuitive to rent two big buildings, each totaling 105,000 square feet, at 3410 and 3420 Central Expressway.

“Our business has grown significantly over the past several years, necessitating expansion in locations worldwide, including Sunnyvale,” Long said in a previous interview with this news organization.

Potentially, 1,000 Intuitive Surgical employees could work in the leased Santa Clara building, which were described as being within walking distance of the company’s headquarters at 1020 Kifer in Sunnyvale.

The headquarters, the leased buildings in Santa Clara and the newly purchased Sunnyvale building are all near the Lawrence Caltrain Station in Sunnyvale.

“We have engineering, manufacturing, and administrative operations in Sunnyvale,” Long said previously.

Wide-ranging construction work was underway on both buildings in recent weeks.

“This is quality real estate,” Dave Sandlin, an executive vice president with Colliers International, a commercial realty firm, said in February of the Santa Clara leasing deal. “Sobrato has really upgraded the buildings on the site.”

Intuitive Surgical’s signature offering is the da Vinci Surgical System. This system combines software, hardware, and optics to enable doctors to operate from a remote console and conduct surgery assisted by robots.

During 2018, Intuitive Surgical earned $1.13 billion on revenue of $3.72 billion, according to the Yahoo Finance site.

Long said the company doesn’t have immediate plans for the recently purchased Sunnyvale building. Perched on a 3.1-acre site, it could potentially be bulldozed and replaced with modern and larger offices. The was constructed in 1985 and is one story in height, commercial property listings state.