aggie0083 Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 (edited) http://209.189.226.235/stories/061707/am_20070617006.php Edited January 19, 2009 by Scotch updated link 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Quite a few of the buildings mentioned in the article linked above are nearing completion. I took a few photos around campus yesterday- George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy and the George P. Mitchell '40 Physics Building (connected together) link The HUGE Interdisiplinary Life Sciences Building New building west of the Vet School, not quite sure what the name is: Texas Transportation Institute state headquaters in Research Park link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Ground has also broken on the Emerging Technologies and Economic Development Interdisciplinary Building: Engineering and Applied Technologies Align By REBECCA WATTS, AbouTown Press ...The building will house the Dwight Look College of Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and the research of interdisciplinary partnerships. International design firm Perkins + Will designed the three-story building to include ample display space, nine classrooms and two lecture halls equipped with state-of-the-art technology, two computer labs, dry and wet bench labs that will support bioscience experiments, underwater research labs, visualization rooms, workshop facilities, and offices. The construction of the Emerging Technologies building will better accommodate the 100 additional faculty positions added to the Dwight Look College of Engineering through the faculty reinvestment plan. Initiated by former Texas A&M president and current U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2006, the plan adds 447 faculty positions over five years to the university... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasVines Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) Ground has also broken on the Emerging Technologies and Economic Development Interdisciplinary Building: Engineering and Applied Technologies Align By REBECCA WATTS, AbouTown Press ...The building will house the Dwight Look College of Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and the research of interdisciplinary partnerships. International design firm Perkins + Will designed the three-story building to include ample display space, nine classrooms and two lecture halls equipped with state-of-the-art technology, two computer labs, dry and wet bench labs that will support bioscience experiments, underwater research labs, visualization rooms, workshop facilities, and offices. The construction of the Emerging Technologies building will better accommodate the 100 additional faculty positions added to the Dwight Look College of Engineering through the faculty reinvestment plan. Initiated by former Texas A&M president and current U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2006, the plan adds 447 faculty positions over five years to the university... boy Gates was a real WIN for TAMU it is too bad he got away so soon.....I have met Murano in person and she is nice and has good experience but she will have big shoes to fill and I will withhold judgment on her until it is all done.....one thing I already do not like is she specifically told a LARGE NUMBER of people that the A in A&M would mean Ag again......then she came up with the totally stupid "agrilife" naming....and what was worse is it was only a short time after they had changed Ag Extension to Cooperative Extension to reflect all the damn food and welfare projects that are ruining extension agencies across the USA.....hell some trucks did not even have the Cooperative Extension stickers on them yet and they changed the stupid name again.....she had a lot of good will to get back after that poorly handled fiasco I hope TAMU and UT have not bid out all these buildings already and can take advantage of the reduced materials prices and building trades demand....it would be great to see them budget in the high price times and then build in lower priced times and have cash left over Edited January 21, 2009 by TexasVines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Bland and boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Bland and boring? You must not have seen the "Soviet" style buildings that A&M threw up in the late 70's/early 80's to deal with the population explosion on campus. The Mitchell Physics Building covers up the view from University Dr. of the Blocker building, a truly awe-inspiring piece of design: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Bland and boring? You must not have seen the "Soviet" style buildings that A&M threw up in the late 70's/early 80's to deal with the population explosion on campus.The Mitchell Physics Building covers up the view from University Dr. of the Blocker building, a truly awe-inspiring piece of design: Oh, I've seen them. What is being built, is only a modest upgrade from above, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NThomas Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Oh, I've seen them. What is being built, is only a modest upgrade from above, IMO.Anything would be better then that even if you don't like the design on these new buildings.IMO, they aren't that bad lookin'. If TAMU builds more facilities like "George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy" (GPACWMIFFPAA), where that 70s crap is now, it'd be a better looking campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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