Welch Hall

University of Texas, Austin, Texas

The University of Texas at Austin Welch Hall was renovated in multiple phases to become a modern academic science facility. This facility includes technology-enabled classrooms, undergraduate teaching laboratories and research labs that are absolutely critical to UT Austin’s ability to continue to provide excellence in science education to the students of Texas. It provides office and laboratory research space to recruit and retain faculty in critical academic (and State of Texas economic development) initiative areas such as chemistry, computational biology, environmental sciences, biochemistry and molecular biology.

The development of the project was carefully handled to assure compliance with the architectural principles established in the 2013 College of Natural Sciences Master Plan. Renovation included demolition of existing laboratory interiors and replacement with a combination of chemistry research laboratories and undergraduate science teaching laboratories, classrooms and administrative offices.

Cost

$74M

Completion

2020

Size

19,000 GSF