University of Texas at Arlington Opens Science and Engineering Building

The University of Texas at Arlington opened the $125 million Science & Engineering Innovation & Research Building (SEIR) in September of 2018. Designed by ZGF Architects and Page Southerland Page to accommodate interdisciplinary biomedical research, the six-story, 229,000-sf facility includes a two-story classroom wing, a four-story research wing, and a basement laboratory level with vibration-mitigated instrumentation suites. Twelve collaborative lab neighborhoods house researchers from the colleges of Engineering, Science, and Nursing and Health Innovation, with interior glass walls facing into the atrium providing visibility and transparency. The building also offers 900 classroom seats, teaching labs, lecture halls, collaboration areas, and space for the North Texas Genome Center. A bridge connection provides access to the UTA Animal Care Facility. The construction manager for the sustainably designed project was AECOM Hunt. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2016.