Urbannizer Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 http://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/2015/11/tmc-new-construction-nov-2015-pics.html 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 ^^^ wow... gorgeous illustrations! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 from reddit also featuring Modera Flats 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 You can see the current Harris County Morgue building (red brick) just the left of the new building under construction. As a side note the Harris County morgue was once located on the B2 level of TMC Garage #1. What remained of the built out space was used by various institutions, mainly Methodist after the morgue moved out. There was a plague on the wall, just outside the south elevators on the B2 level for years. I'm going to go see if it's still there next week. Nice high water picture btw. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 http://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/2016/05/harris-county-forensic-progress-may.html 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 In this photo there's dirt moving on the right, anyone know whats going on? Edit: Location via streetview Med Center / Downtown by russell.hancock, on Flickr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted August 26, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2016 http://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/2016/08/forensic-job-almost-completed.html 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 HCIFS to Begin Operations in New State-of-the-Art Facility HOUSTON, Texas (March 2, 2017) – The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences (HCIFS) is moving into their new, state-of-the-art location at 1861 Old Spanish Trail in the Texas Medical Center, located directly across the street from their current location. Medical Examiner Services will begin in the new location on Saturday, March 4, 2017, and full operations, including Medical Examiner and Crime Laboratory Services, will commence Monday, March 6. The new phone number for the new HCIFS location is: (832) 927-5000. About the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences: The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, an independent, science-based organization located on the grounds of the Texas Medical Center, provides two distinct forensic services for the Harris County community – the Medical Examiner Service and the Crime Laboratory Service. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 wow, this building looks like it was designed by a child playing with a communist beige lego set. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) - Edited July 11, 2019 by Timoric 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Phase II coming soon? Former building on the Daily Demo report: http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-island-living/2017-04-18/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitter1 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) From today at and across the TMC3 site Edited November 25, 2018 by ekdrm2d1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 (edited) - Edited July 12, 2019 by Timoric 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 4 hours ago, Timoric said: This is right up there with the AT&T Shielded Towers with windowless sides. well it is a forensic science building...no need for alot of windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 It would fit right in at the ATM campus. Ugly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Skyline view. The tower crane is for the Blossom hotel. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Forensics on call: A new Texas team is ready to respond to the state’s mass fatalities https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/12/tmort-on-call/ Quote Garrett Phillips received an urgent phone call on the evening on Saturday, August 3, 2019. Since mid-morning, national news outlets had been reporting about a mass shooting at an El Paso Wal-Mart—one of the deadliest in modern United States history. Ultimately, 22 people were killed in the attack. Phillips, an M.D. and assistant medical examiner for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences (HCIFS), had a brief conversation. When he ended the call, he packed a bag. He was heading to El Paso. Early the next morning, Phillips met two HCIFS colleagues and an autopsy assistant from Galveston County at Hobby Airport in Houston. The group flew to El Paso and connected with another autopsy assistant from Collin County. That day, those five individuals would make up the first official Texas Mass Fatality Operations Response Team—a new, statewide, around-the-clock response asset for death investigations and forensic support known as TMORT. The idea was first hatched by Jason Wiersema, Ph.D., the director of forensic anthropology and emergency management at HCIFS who had a storied career responding to mass fatality incidents including mass grave sites in Bosnia, New York City after 9/11 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The forensic anthropologist admitted designing a program from the ground up was a new kind of challenge. “I didn’t really know what to do, so I started reaching out to the county resources and to the city and it quickly became evident that I couldn’t write a mass fatality preparedness plan for our office—that it has to be the county,” Wiersema said. “But then, as I started talking to people in the county, it became obvious that it would have to be the county and the city, since we serve both.” The more Wiersema learned, the more the project’s scope expanded. Soon, the plan was slated to serve the entire state of Texas, in part because resources vary so widely from region to region. “The death investigation system in Texas is extremely variable in capability,” Wiersema said. He noted that Harris County has the largest medical examiner’s office in the state with nearly 300 employees. “We have 60 staff just in investigations alone, so those are the people that go to the scenes and do really detailed death investigations on the scene. … That’s 24 hours a day. We have 17 or 18 pathologists conducting autopsies, four anthropologists, we’ve got toxicology, drug chemistry, DNA trace evidence, histology—doing the job that, in a neighboring county, has to be done by only one person,” Wiersema explained. “And that one person may not have any training at all in forensics or medicine. They’re tasked with the same thing, of course on a much smaller scale, but that doesn’t matter at all if 10 people die acutely in their jurisdiction. Until TMORT, there was really no formal mechanism for them to get any sort of assistance.” The need for this kind of program has grown as mass casualty events have increased in number and complexity over time. “Mass fatality 10 or 15 years ago was very different than it is now,” Wiersema said. “It used to be that what we were planning for was really catastrophes—large-scale natural disasters like floods or earthquakes or hurricanes where you’re generally dealing with intact remains and you’re also not complicating the thing by the fact that it’s a homicide or a crime scene. These incidents that we’re having now—you just add a whole additional dimension to the process.” Ultimately, the TMORT plan landed under the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force (TX EMTF), a response system already in place and led by the Texas Department of State Health Services, regional advisory councils, local EMS organizations and hospital systems. The TX EMTF, developed in 2009, fulfills the need for emergency health care on a short notice during man-made or natural disasters by utilizing local and regional emergency services. With the addition of TMORT, the EMTF program is divided into nine different response components ranging from ambulance strike teams, registered nurse strike teams, air medical strike teams and infectious disease response teams. EMTF is designed to range in scalability depending on need and utilizes highly trained professionals who are actively working in critical care environments—a key detail to ensure best practices and high quality care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 On 7/28/2014 at 12:56 AM, Urbannizer said: Phase Two will accommodate another tower on site for future expansion needs of the institute. http://pagethink.com/v/project-detail/Harris-County-Institute-of-Forensic-Sciences/7p/ An HCAD 2015 Market Trends Report indicates the future expansion will be 4-stories. Old information, but with TMC|3 happening right next door, I'm not sure if it's still foreseeable. Still in the works? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 There is rebar at the site! What ever happened with Phase II of the master plan? There is still a bit of grassy land towards Old Spanish Trail. I wonder what they are doing? Builders have now been out for several weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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