Collaborative Research Center

To facilitate collaborative interactions between Rice University and other TMC institutions, Rice began construction of this 477,000-gross-square-foot, 10-story Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at the corner of Main and University.  The new facility will enable researchers and physicians from the world’s largest medical center to team up with Rice University scientists and engineers on bioscience and biotechnology research and complement one another’s capabilities.

Texas Medical Center (TMC) institutions participating in the CRC include Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

The CRC plans call for eight floors of efficient research laboratories in a tower atop a base platform that will include a vivarium, a 280-seat auditorium, a 100-seat seminar room, classrooms, 10,000 square feet of retail space for a restaurant and shops, and other common space, as well as three levels of underground parking. The baseline plan also includes two stories of shell space to allow easy and rapid expansion as the project grows, along with the potential to add a second research tower atop the base platform that could add up to another 150,000 gross square feet. The building is being constructed on 2.9 acres of land owned by Rice, with occupancy scheduled for early 2009.

Kathy Jones, Senior Project Manager, oversees the CRC project. Assisting her are Dan Condacse, Project Manager, and JoLynn Winfrey, Assistant Project Manager.  Becky Uhl-Brewer provides administrative support for this project. 

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updated 4/13/07 nb