HOUSTON – The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has broken ground on a $299 million research facility in the Texas Medical Center’s new Helix Park campus.
The ten-story, 350,000-sf building will house laboratories with distance-learning technology, an auditorium, a teaching kitchen for dietetic interns, collaborative spaces, and classrooms focusing on epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, health policy, data science, and health promotion.
The tower will also have systems for rainwater harvesting for irrigation, increased natural light, green spaces, a holistic teaching garden, building automation programming, and an upper-level terrace.
Kirksey Architecture designed the project in collaboration with SmithGroup. Vaugn Construction is serving as general contractor.
Delivery is slated for the fall of 2026.