Broaddus & Associates possesses a unique insight into the facilities requirements associated with complex teaching and research hospitals. An example is the firm’s extensive experience managing the planning, design and construction of multiple projects for new biocontainment and research laboratories.

Building 17

The Research Facility Expansion project consisted of two separate buildings for The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Buildings 17 and 21. Building 17 is a freestanding 5-story 90,200 SF laboratory research building. The program for this building called for an entire floor designated as a small animal barrier facility. Other floors are designed as animal support facilities plus generic laboratories, with support spaces and offices for principal investigators, post-doctorate and graduate students. One floor is devoted to small animal behavioral studies to better research addictive human behaviors. This building has two separate connector links to two existing buildings – a three-story research building and a two-story building containing vivarium offices, animal holding and research.

Building 21

Building 21 is an existing three-story building, formerly the Physical Plant Building. The building was vacated and a new four-story wing was added to the south of the building. A fourth story was added on top of the existing building, which expands the current building from 36,000 SF to a total of 95,000 SF. These new and renovated buildings are used for housing a large animal vivarium on the first floor, and large animal surgical unit and ICU on the second floor. The third and fourth floors house surgery, anesthesiology and gastroenterology areas.