Take a look or read about it: Texas Tech $1.1B construction projects | Take a look or read about it: Texas Tech $1.1B construction projects | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=12178 | 2016-02-23T06:00:00Z | 2016-02-23T20:00:00Z |
LUBBOCK - The massive and continual construction/renovation
projects at Texas Tech improve upon and maintain the state-of-the-art
facilities of its 90-year-old campus. Michael Molina, Vice Chancellor of Facilities Planning and
Construction, said within the last six years, Tech has either completed or is
currently working on around $1.1 billion of construction and design. The $15 million expansion to the Jerry S.
Rawls College of Business Administration will add
more than 40,000 sf to its existing area. The groundbreaking ceremony for the
project happened in July 2015. Just south of the College of Business, the new Honors
residence hall will begin construction in March 2016. The 83,000-sf building
will feature a pod-living layout with 305 beds and is set to be completed by
August 2017. In terms of athletic upgrades, $48 million has been
dedicated for the construction of the Sports Performance Center. This complex
will replace the Athletic Training Center, also known as The Bubble. The facility will be completed in about a year and a half.
The Bubble has been deflated and construction will begin soon. The new System Office building at the intersection of Texas
Tech Pkwy. and the Marsha Sharp Fwy. is a $27.5 million project for the Tech
University System. The three-story building will be 80,000 sf, consisting of support
spaces, infrastructure, landscaping, surface parking and office space for all
of the System offices. The major renovation project on campus is the Maddox
Engineering Research Center. Located near Memorial Circle at the entrance to
the Engineering Key, this research facility will occupy the former Media and
Communication building. This $30 million project is slated to be completed by August and
should be fully operational by September of this year.
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