Students at The University of Texas at El Paso will soon live in a state-of-the-art residence hall equipped with a fitness center and brand-new dining facility near the center of campus.
LPA Design Studios has welcomed Lawrence Speck鈥攁 respected architect, educator and leader鈥攁s a Senior Designer in the firm鈥檚 Austin office.
On Feb. 2, Texas State Technical College (TSTC) opened a new Construction Technologies Center to students at its Waco campus, bringing several construction-trades programs under one roof.
Construction was recently聽completed a $31 million Early College High School facility for Round Rock Independent School District in Round Rock, Texas, outside Austin, moving the program from portable buildings into a new permanent campus for the Spring 2026 semester.聽
UT San Antonio is heading into 2026 with a wave of facility investment that adds housing, expands downtown academic and business-support space, and upgrades athletics infrastructure. Five projects鈥攕ome already in use, others nearing completion鈥攈ighlight where the university is putting construction dollars to work.聽
Construction is now underway on Oak Springs Elementary School in Austin, part of an ongoing bond program for Austin Independent School District.
Rice University, a private, non-profit university in Houston, will soon break ground on the new Moody Center Complex for Student Life (MCCSL), a 75,000-square-foot multi-use hub.聽聽
Architecture planning and design firm PBK has welcomed Lee Osborne, AIA, LEED AP, as new managing principal of the Fort Worth, Texas, office. Osborne has more than two decades of designing and planning experience within school districts across the state of Texas.
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has approved multiple campus construction and improvement projects that total over half-a-billion dollars.
The School of Dental Medicine at the University of Buffalo (UB) has received a $7.3 million grant from the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs of the National Institute of Health for development of the new 4,000-square-foot Microbiome Center Gnotobiotic Animal Research Facility, supporting research that may provide insights into diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease.聽
