Belo Center for New Media (BMC)
Construction Dates: Winter 2010-Winter 2012
Details: The Belo Center of New Media will be located on the northeast corner of Guadalupe St. and Dean Keeton, across from the street from the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center. The new building will create approximately 120,000 gross square feet (gsf) housing multiuse classrooms, research labs, public forum spaces and offices.
Benefits to Campus: The new facility will consolidate the communication classes currently taught in other buildings on campus. The new building will provide state-of-the-art facilities enabling teaching, learning, and research to cross traditional boundaries and create new forms of communication and collaboration.
Contacts: If you have questions about construction of the Belo Center of New Media, contact Project Manager Pawn Chulavatr at 512-579-5033.
Biomedical Engineering Building (BME) South Wing
Construction Dates: Fall 2010 completion goal for the south wing
Details: The new six-story Biomedical Engineering Building is located on West Dean Keeton Street between University Avenue and Wichita Street. The building now houses the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as well as College of Natural Science teaching labs and College of Pharmacy research space and offices. The building has a bridge to the Neural Molecular Science Building on the east side. The main portion of the BME was completed in the summer of 2008, and construction of a south wing to provide additional space for teaching labs and College of Pharmacy research space and offices is underway with completion expected in the fall of 2010.
Benefits to Campus: This construction project provides lab, classroom and research space for various sciences in a unified area.
Contacts: If you have questions about the goals of the south wing, contact Dr. Miles Crismon, dean of the College of Pharmacy, at 512-471-3718.
Norman Hackerman Building (NHB)
Construction Dates: Winter 2008-Fall 2010
Traffic Note: The sidewalk on the north side of 24th Street is closed off in front of the construction site, so all pedestrians should use the sidewalk on the other side of the street. Expect some traffic delays along 24th Street.
Details: The original Experimental Science Building, on West 24th Street between University Avenue and Speedway, was demolished to make way for a new building, which is designed to meet the needs of state-of-the-art academic research. The project will provide a six-level facility of about 287,000 gross square feet, housing research space for neuroscience and chemistry, as well as chemistry teaching labs. Many green building concepts are being incorporated into the design of the building. The new building has been named for Dr. Norman Hackerman, former chairman of the Chemistry Department and president of The University of Texas at Austin.
Benefits to Campus: The new Norman Hackerman Building will feature modern, technology-enabled classrooms and undergraduate teaching laboratories critical to enabling the university to continue providing excellence in science education to the students of Texas. The building will provide office and laboratory research space to recruit and retain faculty in critical academic initiative areas, such as neuroscience, computational biology, environmental sciences, pharmacy, and molecular and cellular biology.
Contacts: If you have questions about construction of the Norman Hackerman Building, contact Project Manager Brian Wittmayer at 512-471-0282. If you have questions about building use and the goals of this project, contact Peter Riley, associate dean for the college of Natural Sciences, at 512-471-3285.