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Texas Children’s Hospital, Feigin Center expansion, Houston. Photo: Aker/Zvonkovic Photography
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Texas Children’s Hospital, Feigin Center expansion, Houston.
Budget: $80.4 million.
Size: 220,000 ft2
Project team: FKP Architects, Houston (architect); Burns Delatte McCoy Inc., Houston (MEP engineer); Walter P. Moore, Houston (civil/structural engineer); Inventure Design, Houston (interiors); White Oak Studio, Houston (landscape architect); W.S. Bellows Construction, Houston (general contractor).
Completion date: 2009,
Description: Project, which recently received an honorable mention in the 2010 R&D Magazine Laboratory of the Year Competition, added eight stories to an existing 12-story research tower in the Texas Medical Center. Research home to pediatric programs in the Baylor College of Medicine, the Feigin Center gained more than 200,000 ft2 of space through the expansion, including research labs, clinical research offices, a full floor of GMP space for gene therapies, a unique simulation center, an expanded vivarium and a new animal-imaging center. Challenges included successful negotiations with code authorities to allow up to 10% H-category occupancy per floor, and optimization of ventilation through an Aircuity air-sampling and monitoring system.
Contact: Michael Shirley, AIA, LEED AP, FKP Architects, mshirley@fkp.com
