Posted Aug 23, 2023, 2:13 PM
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UTHealth Houston Research Park
For those unfamiliar with the location, it is along Old Spanish Trail between Bertner Ave & Cambridge St, directly across from TMC Helix Park. It looks like several new substantial buildings will be going up here in the next few years, continuing to densify the area formerly known by some as TMC South. A connection between the Research Park and Helix Park continues to appear to be part of the plan, at least via the continuation of the walking path of the park component.
UT Health Houston School of Public Health
To the left would be South Campus Research Building #5 (SCRB5) and to the right is what is believed to be the Digital Innovation Tower - seen in the proposal as "Future Education Building".
Additional info from Highrise Tower on HAIF
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The MD Anderson South Campus vivarium got larger! I thought the vivarium was a small, inexpensive, modular building? The project was renamed to Biosciences Research Facility with a budget limit of $441,000,000. The building is only 3 floors above ground, yet costs nearly $500 million. wow!!
Paco Jones broke the news about the future BRF in the thread MD Anderson TMC Master Facilities Framework 2030. Thought I would borrow his images and transcribe the text so the text is indexable on HAIF.
It looks like the UT Research Park will have on-going, continuous construction for the next 5 to 6 years!
August 2023 - UTHealth School of Public Health
October 2023 - MD Anderson SCRB5
2024 - UTHealth Digital Innovation Tower
2025 - MD Anderson BRF
Project Introduction:
The MD Anderson South Campus Biosciences Research Facility (BRF) will be a one-of-a-kind vivarium facility that drives innovation in research, supports animal welfare, enables consistency high efficacy of research, and promotes a work environment that helps attract and retain top talent for MD Anderson.
As part of MD Anderson's Master Plan, the institution is consolidating its research footprint to the South Campus – creating the Texas Medical Center Research Hub. In support of this, MD Anderson requires a state-of-the-art vivarium designed to accommodate the future needs of the research community. The current animal care and use program is challenged by the north/south campus separation that requires balancing access to animals based on researchers and lab locations. It is imperative that the physical location of the building be central to the majority of research buildings to minim street on animals and humans and to including confounding factors on data.
To facilitate these goals, a phased approach to the project has been determined to best meet the Institution's planning and research goals while aligning with the current budget. Due to the complexity of the vivarium's program and ensuring that future phases will integrate seamlessly to become a single multi-phased complex, specific operation and design drivers have identified to provide a framework for the Phase 1 program. The primary goal being to provide the best value for day one operational functionary with the ability to expand in future phases to create one, single cohesive facility.
Phase 1 is comprised of two occupied floors with approximately 211,728 gross square feet and an upper third shelled floor of approximately 78,0000 gross square feet. The ground floor is comprised of an automated central cage wash facility, cage wash support spaces, complete loading dock for all phases, and building systems support spaces. The second floor will enable a minimum of 30,000 rodent cages to be housed on one level, while the third floor will be shelled for future expansion (Phase 1.5)
Phase 1.5 Interior fit out will be built to suit and can enable the facility to either accommodate an additional 30,000 rodent cages and associated support spaces or provide specialty barrier housing for 13,300 rodent cages along with priority core research services as determined at that time.
Future Phase 2 will be a separate but connected building structure with the long term plan to expand directly south and horizontally from the Phase 1 building with full connectivity between phases. This future phase will include the remainder of the original BRF program of core research services including Aquatics, Small Animal Imaging Facility, Pathology, Behavioral, GEMF, specialty housing, and eventually accommodating the full 90,000-cage capacity – delivering a single, complete vivarium complex.
The project site is located on the corner of East Road and Bertner Avenue. Preparation of the site will include removing the existing MD Anderson Operations & Maintenance Storage Facility, the Hazardous Waste Storage Facility, and the existing surface lot parking. Once the site is cleared of existing structures, a new underground utility runs will connect electric services, water, sanitary and storm to the existing mains located adjacent to East Road and Bertner.
Due to the thermal load requirements needed for this large-scale vivarium, it was determined that the existing South Campus CUP would not be able to support this facility. In lieu of service from the existing CUP, Phase 1 will include a stand-alone thermal plant to provide the required chilled water for Phase 1 operations. The stand-alone plant will designed so that it can moderately expand into future phases. In addition, Phase 1 will include a tie-in connect to the existing ground thermal line at the west side of the site. The project team is currently analyzing integration of the new chiller plant into the mater distributed loop and optimization controls to determine cost feasibility.
A few years ago a MD Anderson engineer showed me where the future vivarium will be located. He was right! East Road and Bertner Avenue, by SCRB #3. This development has been in the works for at least 3 years. Glad to see it coming a long!
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And c/o hindesky on HAIF via Instagram
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