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CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN A GATEWAY STRUCTURE

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

The importance of the Chemical Engineering program is visible to all with this landmark, $36-million structure that serves as a gateway building to the engineering complex.

We selected an economical cast-in-place concrete frame that provides a high degree of flexibility for changing laboratory programs for this gateway building to the engineering complex. 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 master planned for site access and utilities rerouting 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.