Highrise Tower Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Did these containers arrive at the site this week? Portable Toilets to follow? Could be a great sign leading to boots on the ground! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Trailers on site!! More and more equipment will start arriving in the next few weeks. I expect ground breaking in 2 or 3 weeks. Really wish MDA's SCRB5 would join the new UTHealth SOPH building going up. Dual buildings would be awesome! I believe they will definitely overlap but there might be a 6 month delay. The funding sources are the same, we will hear more details soon! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Benches have arrived. Stairs are now being built around the construction trailers! Let's go!! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Highrise Tower Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 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! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Equipment on site!! The immediate area also has a new fence. Breaking ground this week? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 FAA Proposed Obstructions permits for the building and the two tower cranes. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Crawler crane showed up this week! This should be breaking ground in the next few weeks. Look out for city permitting! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 This has broken ground! This week, excavators have been pulling up the concrete surface lot. Let's go!! Additional banner with rendering has been posted on the fence. Nice looking building! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Crawler crane being assembled! More of the surface lot was torn up this past week. Moving right along! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Concrete Piles!! That was fast. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/09/20/md-anderson-breaks-ground-south-campus-building.html "The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center broke ground Sept. 20 on a new research facility that will tie the institution to the Texas Medical Center’s new development. Representing a $668 million investment, the 600,000-square-foot South Campus Research Building 5 will anchor MD Anderson’s south campus research park and will connect to TMC's 37-acre Helix Park, formerly known as TMC3. MD Anderson expects the SCRB5 facility, located at 1920 Old Spanish Trail, to be complete in spring 2026." 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted September 20, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2023 "MD Anderson Cancer Center on Wednesday broke ground on a seven-story building that will anchor the institution’s south campus research park, where the system has built multiple research buildings over the last two decades. The new building also will serve as an extension of the Texas Medical Center’s Helix Park, the massive life sciences complex under construction south of the medical center. Supported by a $668 million “institutional investment,” the new building is expected to be completed by spring 2026." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/health/article/md-anderson-breaks-ground-new-7-story-research-18377801.php#photo-24256101 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/09/21/md-anderson-cancer-center-new-building-researchers.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s "Dr. Peter Pisters, president of MD Anderson, also discussed the center’s need to move away from the spaces traditionally associated with clinical research. At the groundbreaking, Pisters said MD Anderson is designing SCRB5 for “100 years of use.” “That means we’re migrating beyond things we’ve done in the past,” Pisters said. “If you go to some of our other research buildings, what you see are cinder blocks, fixed benches and tiny windows. And that won't work for the way that we do research today. It won't attract people from around the world to join our teams." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 wow!! the UTHealth School of Public Health is flying by! No activity for Anderson's SCRB5. Will probably, physically, break ground in a few weeks. Dual buildings going up at the same time!! I wonder if there will be 3 or 4 tower cranes at the site. Should be amazing! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 This week's construction update at this very busy site. Rebar sticking out of the ground already! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 The UTHSOPH is well under way! This week's construction update. No activity next door at the future SCRB5. I'm assuming we will see equipment slowly coming onto the site during the month of October. Maybe physically breaking ground late October? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Crane is flying up scrubber vents. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Not sure if this project is related or a whole other project. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 MD Anderson's SCRB5 has broken ground!! UTHealth School of Public Health: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Site visit from this week. SCRB5, still breaking up the concrete surface lot. SOPH, concrete piles: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 This week's construction update. Still breaking up that massive surface lot. UTHealth School of Public Health's concrete piles in the ground. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Proposed FAA Obstructions for the building and 3 tower cranes. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 SCRB5 rendering has been posted a long OST. Let's go!! Looks like they are saving this beautiful tree. Trailers on site! SOPH has a structure forming! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Construction updates this week. MD Anderson's SCRB5 is coming a long with additional trailers. UTHealth's School of Public Health is moving right along! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 The MD Anderson SCRB5 site is starting off a little slow. Currently working on connecting all the trailers and related civil work. UTHealth School of Public Health. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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