UT Research Park Complex Developments

[Highrise Tower]

The TMC3 MD Anderson building across the street will be called SCRB5.

[Highrise Tower]

SCRB5 rendering released.

[Highrise Tower]

I was told Vaughn Construction already has contracts to build both the SCRB5 and the new UTHealth School of Public Health building. Both of which will coordinate design with the TMC3 project across the street.

Lets go!!

[Highrise Tower]

On 11/15/2022 at 5:42 AM, Highrise Tower said:

I was told Vaughn Construction already has contracts to build both the SCRB5 and the new UTHealth School of Public Health building. Both of which will coordinate design with the TMC3 project across the street.

Lets go!!

Project Name: UTHealth Houston Public Health Education and Research Building

Location Address: 1930 Old Spanish Trail

Start Date: 6/6/2023

Estimated Cost: $239,000,000

Scope of Work: Construction of ten story office, education and research building with associated site work.

Square Footage: 355,585 ft 2

[hindesky]

Architect - https://www.kirksey.com

[toxtethogrady]

$239M and 355KSF sounds like more than just a two-story strip. Looking for renders.

[Fortune]

2 hours ago, toxtethogrady said:

$239M and 355KSF sounds like more than just a two-story strip. Looking for renders.

Says it will be a 10-story building. 

Edited February 7, 2023 by Fortune

[Highrise Tower]

February 22-23, 2023 Meeting of the U. T. System Board of Regents - Facilities Planning and Construction Committee

Previous Actions:
On January 22, 2020, the Chancellor approved this project for Definition Phase as the TMC3 Translation and Discovery Building. On September 23, 2022, the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Capital Projects approved the project name change to South Campus Research Building 5. On November 17, 2022, the project was included in the CIP with a total project cost of $668,300,000 with funding of $556,402,889 from Hospital Revenues, $69,897,111 from TRB Proceeds and $42,000,000 from PUF Bond Proceeds.

Project Description:
The proposed project will be a seven-story building with an additional two-level mechanical equipment penthouse. The scope of the project will include site work, which encompasses site specific utility infrastructure work; the interior finish-out of floors one through four, a central plaza sited between this building and a new Public Health Education and Research Building to be constructed under a concurrent project by U. T. Health Science Center - Houston, and the construction of a pedestrian bridge over Old Spanish Trail enabling connectivity of the South Campus buildings to the TMC Helix Park. Floors five through seven are to be completed under a separate project in approximately ten years. The project will position the institution to relocate and co-locate researchers that are currently distributed broadly across multiple aging buildings. The researchers will be moved to the southern section of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Campus. The new facility is being designed with maximum flexibility to meet new and evolving research technologies and is to include wet and dry laboratories, core facilities to support research, conferencing facilities, collaboration spaces, and food and beverage amenities. The building will be designed with a focus on the well-being of the occupants, providing a high-quality place of work with access to natural light and connectivity to enable collaboration.

Project Information:
Project Number 703-1300
CIP Project Type New Construction
Facility Type Laboratory, Medical/Healthcare
Management Type Institutional Management
Institution’s Project Advocate Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President
and Chief Scientific Officer
Project Delivery Method Construction Manager-at-Risk
Gross Square Feet (GSF) 600,000
Shell Space (GSF) 234,600

Project Funding:
Hospital Revenues1 $556,402,889
Tuition Revenue Bond Proceeds 69,897,111
Permanent University Fund Bond Proceeds 42,000,000
Total Project Cost $668,300,000
1 Includes $19,800,000 from U. T. Health Science Center - Houston for portion of costs for shared plaza and
pedestrian bridge to TMC Helix Park

Project Milestones:
Definition Phase Approval January 2020
Addition to CIP November 2022
Design Development Approval February 2023
Construction Notice to Proceed July 2023
Substantial Completion June 2027
Final Completion September 2027

[Dewey]

4 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

February 22-23, 2023 Meeting of the U. T. System Board of Regents - Facilities Planning and Construction Committee

Previous Actions:
On January 22, 2020, the Chancellor approved this project for Definition Phase as the TMC3 Translation and Discovery Building. On September 23, 2022, the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Capital Projects approved the project name change to South Campus Research Building 5. On November 17, 2022, the project was included in the CIP with a total project cost of $668,300,000 with funding of $556,402,889 from Hospital Revenues, $69,897,111 from TRB Proceeds and $42,000,000 from PUF Bond Proceeds.

Project Description:
The proposed project will be a seven-story building with an additional two-level mechanical equipment penthouse. The scope of the project will include site work, which encompasses site specific utility infrastructure work; the interior finish-out of floors one through four, a central plaza sited between this building and a new Public Health Education and Research Building to be constructed under a concurrent project by U. T. Health Science Center - Houston, and the construction of a pedestrian bridge over Old Spanish Trail enabling connectivity of the South Campus buildings to the TMC Helix Park. Floors five through seven are to be completed under a separate project in approximately ten years. The project will position the institution to relocate and co-locate researchers that are currently distributed broadly across multiple aging buildings. The researchers will be moved to the southern section of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Campus. The new facility is being designed with maximum flexibility to meet new and evolving research technologies and is to include wet and dry laboratories, core facilities to support research, conferencing facilities, collaboration spaces, and food and beverage amenities. The building will be designed with a focus on the well-being of the occupants, providing a high-quality place of work with access to natural light and connectivity to enable collaboration.

Project Information:
Project Number 703-1300
CIP Project Type New Construction
Facility Type Laboratory, Medical/Healthcare
Management Type Institutional Management
Institution’s Project Advocate Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President
and Chief Scientific Officer
Project Delivery Method Construction Manager-at-Risk
Gross Square Feet (GSF) 600,000
Shell Space (GSF) 234,600

Project Funding:
Hospital Revenues1 $556,402,889
Tuition Revenue Bond Proceeds 69,897,111
Permanent University Fund Bond Proceeds 42,000,000
Total Project Cost $668,300,000
1 Includes $19,800,000 from U. T. Health Science Center - Houston for portion of costs for shared plaza and
pedestrian bridge to TMC Helix Park

Project Milestones:
Definition Phase Approval January 2020
Addition to CIP November 2022
Design Development Approval February 2023
Construction Notice to Proceed July 2023
Substantial Completion June 2027
Final Completion September 2027

Is this the funding for the aforementioned new building for the School of Public Health to be located on OST, behind/in front of the Dental School, or something else entirely inside the TMC3 Helix?

[Highrise Tower]

Project Name: MD Anderson South Campus Research Building 5

Location Address: 1920 Old Spanish Trail

Start Date: 9/15/2023

Estimated Cost: $389,657,206

Scope of Work: Ground up new construction of 7 story office/research science building for MD Anderson Cancer Center. Cast in place concrete frame with steel framed penthouse, high rise construction with automatic fire protection sprinkler system.

Square Footage: 600,000 ft 2

Design Firm Name: Elkus Manfredi Architects

[bookey23]

Are the two Research Buildings going to be two separate buildings next to each other on Old Spanish Trail? Or are the two TDLR filings one in the same?

[Lux]

TDLR filings are separate buildings

[Highrise Tower]

MD Anderson Research Environment (Facilities and Infrastructure)

Elkus Manfredi Architects, October 22, 2021.

[Highrise Tower]

MD Anderson Research Town Hall April 29, 2022

5SCR

[Highrise Tower]

A Water/Waste Water permit was pulled for SCRB5.

Let's go!!

[Dewey]

On 4/6/2023 at 8:59 PM, Lux said:

TDLR filings are separate buildings

Saw a groundbreaking event for new School of Public Health with different angle on rendering. Address 1930 OST. 

[Urbannizer]

On 6/8/2023 at 4:12 PM, Dewey said:

Saw a groundbreaking event for new School of Public Health with different angle on rendering. Address 1930 OST. 

Where’d you find this image? It doesn’t announce the groundbreaking date which I take is imminent.

[Highrise Tower]

Sorry, no pictures but there is utility work going on at the outskirts of this property.  There is about two be 2 towers going up at the same time, so the neighboring work could be related.  Any week now!!

[Highrise Tower]

wow!!

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Capital Expenditure Plan Report
Fiscal Years 2023-2027

September 2022

The University of Texas Health Scicnes Center at Houston

A few things that caught my eye for the TMC campus:

Digital Innovation Tower - $84,000,000
Medical Hospital - $244,000,000 (!!!!)
MSB Research Expansion Phase II - $200,000,000
Public Health Education and Research Building - $315,000,000
UTHealth Housing Phase 4 - $94,000,000

Some more on the UTHealth Digital Innovation Tower for the Research Park Complex.

Texas House of Representatives
Committee on Higher Education
Interim Charge Two, Request for Information
The University of Texas System
September 1, 2020

 

 

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

The UTHealth Houston two proposals for a research building connected to the new TMC3 project that would be the new hoe to the UTHealth School of Public Health and a Digital Innovation Tower on the south research campus for the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. These to schools have set an explosion in enrollment due to the pandemic and student wanting to enter into the public health field or the informatics/artificial intelligence fields.

* SBMI Summer 2020: +26.6% over last summer

* SPH Summer 2020: +21.1% over last summer

And both schools are seeing large increases in Fall enrollment as well.

These two workforces that are facing shortages in Texas highlight bu the pandemic. It is estimated that more than 4/5 of all public health workforce are not formally trained in public health. Informatics and see of artificial intelligence are the ways future epidemics can be contact traced successfully without may of the privacy concerns. These demands for expended public health and informatics workforce stress the needs for funding for this infrastructure.

 

[Highrise Tower]

Orange barriers at the site!!

[Urbannizer]

UTHealth Houston School of Public Health breaks ground on a building that embodies the education, research and practice to keep Texans healthy

https://www.uth.edu/news/story/uthealth-houston-school-of-public-health-breaks-ground-on-a-building-that-embodies-the-education-research-and-practice-to-keep-texans-healthy

The most prestigious school of public health in the state and fourth-largest in the country, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health will break ground on a 10-story, 350,000-square-foot tower in the Texas Medical Center that underscores the school’s mission of health promotion and disease prevention, sustainable access to affordable health care with improved outcomes, and training the next generation of leaders in public health sciences.

“This new, state-of-the-art facility will serve as a platform for our students, faculty and staff – allowing them to transform the lives and health of our communities through public health education and research,” said Giuseppe Colasurdo, MD, president and Alkek-Williams Distinguished Chair at UTHealth Houston.

The design of the new building, with an estimated cost of $299 million, embraces sustainability with plans for rainwater harvesting for irrigation, abundant natural light, access to greenspace, an upper-level terrace, holistic teaching garden, and building automation programming.

Located in the Texas Medical Center’s Helix Park, it will house state-of-the-art research laboratories and distance-learning technology, an auditorium, teaching kitchen for its dietetic interns, collaborative spaces, and classrooms in support of the school’s broad range of disciplines including epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, health policy, data science, and health promotion.

 

[ChannelTwoNews]

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/06/27/uthealth-tmc-helix-research-tower-groundbreaking.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

 

[cityliving]

UTHealth breaks ground on $299M research tower in Texas Medical Center's Helix Park

 

The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has broken ground on a $299 million research facility in the Texas Medical Center’s new Helix Park campus.

UTHealth said the 10-story, 350,000-square-foot tower will help to advance the school's mission of pursuing health promotion and disease prevention, creating sustainable access to affordable health care and training the next generation of leaders in public health sciences

The building will house research laboratories with distance-learning technology, an auditorium, a teaching kitchen for dietetic interns, collaborative spaces, and classrooms focusing on epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, health policy, data science and health promotion. 

 

“This new state-of-the-art facility will serve as a platform for our students, faculty and staff — allowing them to transform the lives and health of our communities through public health education and research,” Giuseppe Colasurdo, president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a statement.

The building was designed with an emphasis on sustainability, UTHealth said. The tower will have systems for rainwater harvesting for irrigation, increased natural light, green spaces, a holistic teaching garden and building automation programming. Employees will also have access to an upper-level terrace

UTHealth tapped Houston-based Kirksey Architecture to design the project in collaboration with Detroit, Michigan-based SmithGroup. Houston-based Vaughn Construction is serving as general contractor for the project. 

The new facility is scheduled to open in time for the fall semester in 2026.

UTHealth's Houston campus was founded in 1967, and it now has community engagement centers and faculty across the state, including in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso and Brownsville.

The institution’s research efforts seek to address a wide range of health-related issues, including underserved border communities, DNA sequence analysis on a population scale, promoting healthy behaviors in schools and workplace safety on farms and factories.

The new tower marks the latest addition to the TMC’s new 37-acre Helix Park. The first phase of the project is already well underway, with the first buildings set to open there later this year.

On Jan. 10, TMC and Beacon Capital Partners announced Baylor College of Medicine will be the anchor for Dynamic One, one of Helix Park’s four industry buildings. Baylor's 114,000 square feet of lab and office space will span three floors of the 355,000-square-foot building.

Dynamic One is one of several Helix Park buildings set to open at the end of 2023, according to TMC officials. Another is TMC’s own headquarters, which includes space for retail on the ground floor and offices for venture capital on the upper floors.

In addition to laboratory and retail space, TMC’s headquarters includes space for lectures and presentations, including a 350-seat space in the atrium. On the building’s fourth and highest floor, three TMC member institutions — the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M University and UTHealth — will have over 24,000 square feet of overlapping lab and office space.

TMC CEO Bill McKeon has described Helix Park as a “medical city” district, with an emphasis on getting people to connect both inside and out of buildings and to be more than a research location.

The Helix Park project is expected to create more than 26,000 permanent jobs and have a $5.4 billion annual economic impact.

The campus’s eponymous helix-shaped parks, designed by Mikyoung Kim, are also expected to be among the Helix Park features opening in late 2023. The parks are intended to be an injection of green space, which McKeon has said is lacking on TMC’s current campuses. Retail kiosks are expected to set up shop in the parks, and outdoor event space will be available for performances.

 

Edited June 27, 2023 by cityliving

[CREguy13]

TMC Helix Park is really starting to pick up momentum.  Would love to see some of the other institutions break ground soon on their buildings and be great to land a big Life Science or Biotech company as a tenant in Dynamic One.  How exciting!

[monarch]

 

^^^ what an absolutely gorgeous/stately/professional structure.  we are so proud.  mooooooooo... HOOK'EM!

[thatguysly]

Awesome looking design and glad to see the momentum is still going here. Hope they start the tower soon too.

[ChannelTwoNews]

So, is this part of Helix Park now or is it still part of the Research Park?

I seem to recall seeing that the adjacent SCRB 5 plan had a design and landscaping reminiscent of Helix Park that could tie in with that elevated crosswalk, but they weren't necessarily part of it either. 

 

[stuckINdallas]

https://www.houston.org/news/tmc-helix-park-adds-vc-firm-uthealth-houston

[Highrise Tower]

I don't think the UTHealth School of Public Health building has (physically) broken ground yet. Maybe the state funds have been released to proceed with construction?

The breaking ground event banner has been posted a long the fence along Old Spanish Trail.  Very cool!!

Let's go SCRB5!!

[Highrise Tower]

Question about one of the renderings released for the new UTHealth School of Public Health building.

Does anyone else see an unnamed building that's ghosted to the right? What is this about? Could this be the proposed UTHealth Digital Innovation Tower?