CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN A GATEWAY STRUCTURE

Jack E. Brown Chemical Engineering Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

The Chemical Engineering program gets a good reaction wtih this $36-million structure that serves as a gateway to the engineering complex.

We selected an economical cast-in-place concrete frame that provides a high degree of flexibility for changing laboratory programs. This seven-story, 200,000-square-foot building contains sixteen 22' x 30' research labs on each of five lab floors, with graduate student offices located on the outside wall of each floor. The facility also includes cross-campus presentation rooms, computer labs and a resource center, administrative and faculty offices and classrooms for all university students.

We extended the campus chilled water system to the site and provided master planning services for site access and utilities rerouted to replace a parking lot. The building is close to existing buildings and required extensive coordination with the landscape architect to address grade differences.

Construction was completed in November 2004.

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