The new facility is home to several laboratory types including open research laboratories, central laboratory core spaces, and specialty labs for microscopy, tissue culture to name a few. The two upper floors are divided by a central service corridor. The ground floor houses the director's administrative suite and the more public side of the facility's function, including video-conference rooms, training, interaction spaces, and building support services.

Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Austin, Texas

Profile: The Dell Pediatric Research Institute (DPRI) is The University of Texas at Austin's new state-of-the-art medical research facility that advances the understanding of childhood diseases and disorders. DPRI is located next door to the Dell Children's Medical Center on the site of the old Robert Mueller Airport in Central Austin. The facility provides research, laboratory, and office spaces that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration between academic research, medical research, and clinical initiatives supporting the health and welfare of children. The Institute's main goal is to collaborate and provide programs and treatments to improve children's health. Faculty from the colleges of Natural Sciences and Pharmacy conduct research that enables advances in the areas of birth defects, brain injury, nutrition, epilepsy, autism, childhood obesity, and cancer.

 

Services: Our design team provided all low voltage design including voice, data, audiovisual, security, CATV, and acoustics.

 

Type: New Construction    Size: 180,000 SF    Cost: $97 Million