AUSTIN | Cockrell School of Engineering Education & Research Ctr | 8 FLRS | Completed - Page 2

KevinFromTexas · #21 Posted **Sep 12, 2013, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by dbeyoncé

I walked by the site on Dean Keeton yesterday, and I'm a little confused about where the footprint of this building is - directly to the left of the current Engineering building is a creek (I think it's Waller creek), then San Jacinto street, and then an open field with another creekbed that disappears under Dean Keeton. From the renderings it seems the building may straddle all three of these, so I'm wondering if they plan to close that stretch of San Jacinto?

They're going to demolish the old Engineering Science Center that was built in 1964. It'll be immediately north of where that building is now.

The building in the link below will be demolished.
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=30.28...=h&dg=opt&z=20

dbeyoncé · #22 Posted **Sep 13, 2013, 3:10 AM**

Ah I see, it's facing San Jacinto. That's going to make that part of campus much nicer, even though the power station will still be right across 24th street. The path up to the Texas Memorial Museum is one of my favorite spots

KevinFromTexas · #23 Posted **Apr 15, 2014, 5:41 AM**

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/l...gineeri/nfZmb/

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Posted: 12:04 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Exxon Mobil CEO pledges $5 million for UT engineering building

By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
American-Statesman Staff

Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., and his wife Renda have pledged $5 million for an engineering building at the University of Texas.

KevinFromTexas · #24 Posted **Aug 20, 2014, 11:10 AM**

KevinFromTexas · #25 Posted **Dec 30, 2014, 10:14 PM**

JoninATX pointed out in Photolith's photos that UT has demolished the Crockrell School of Engineering Building to make way for the new engineering building. This is the first high rise in Austin to be demolished in 25 to 30 years.

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Originally Posted by photoLith

Photos I took a couple of days ago while flying into San Antonio.

DSC_1454 by photolitherland, on Flickr

DSC_1457 by photolitherland, on Flickr

KevinFromTexas · #26 Posted **Dec 31, 2014, 4:41 AM**

This is the building they demolished.

http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/ens.html

ChrisBBradford · #27 Posted **Dec 31, 2014, 5:04 AM**

Those aerials are great. They should be cross-posted to the photos & videos thread.

Urbannizer · #28 Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 12:45 AM**

1/21

KevinFromTexas · #29 Posted **Feb 3, 2015, 11:46 PM**

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-research.html

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Texas Instruments gives millions for UT research center for engineering
Feb 3, 2015, 10:54am CST

Chad Swiatecki
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

Texas Instuments has donated $3.5 million to the University of Texas' Cockrell School of Engineering to create dedicated laboratory space at the department's under-construction Engineering Education and Research Center.

That project, with a budget of more than $300 million, is set to open in 2017 and will feature the TI Laboratories as part of its 430,000 square feet of open and flexible learning space.

KevinFromTexas · #30 Posted **Feb 27, 2015, 10:24 PM**

Video showing the demolition of the old building.

• Video Link

Urbannizer · #31 Posted **Mar 24, 2015, 8:09 PM**

Crane is up for this one.

Urbannizer · #32 Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 2:03 AM**

6/30

_Matt · #33 Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 9:07 PM**

At least we know the lots won't sit flat for long when the university is involved (ahem, ZaZa).

drummer · #34 Posted **Jul 2, 2015, 1:07 AM**

Surely UT has a hospitality management program that could run the hotel...then it'd get built.

KevinFromTexas · #35 Posted **Jul 18, 2015, 7:00 PM**

Uploaded July 16.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Jdawgboy · #36 Posted **Jul 18, 2015, 8:22 PM**

That's going to be a massive building.

Flatiron · #37 Posted **Oct 2, 2015, 2:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

That's going to be a massive building.

Massive is exactly the word I thought of when I saw took these pictures today:

KevinFromTexas · #38 Posted **Oct 2, 2015, 8:42 PM**

Yep. That's what 430,000 square feet looks like on 8 floors. They're about double the size of the largest floor plates in the Frost Bank Tower.

Flatiron · #39 Posted **Nov 10, 2015, 12:09 AM**

11/8/15

Tech House · #40 Posted **Nov 10, 2015, 1:49 AM**

I'm really looking forward to this project, it looks to be quite an impressive one that breaks the mold of other UT designs. With all that funding from Exxon Mobile, I wonder if they'll offer a Masters in Climate Change Denial. I've been watching a lot of long videos on YT lately about various fossil fuel topics, and I've decided that I want to be reborn in the 1940s as a petroleum geologist. It's a fascinating area of research, highly lucrative, and by now I'd be retired and would have the luxury of being a climate activist who freely admits to having helped oil companies find new resources to exploit. After all, without oil we wouldn't have about 90% of everything we're accustomed to in our modern lives. I find it endlessly fascinating that life always hands us a massive side dish of new problems with every new solution we find. It makes things interesting, keeps us on our toes, and continually pushes us toward further advances.