Texas A&M University (TAMU) will build a $220 million Biology Teaching and Research Building on the main College Station campus. The university is currently seeking a designer, with construction slated to begin in late 2026.
The 184,651-square-foot, four-story facility will contain four classrooms tailored for traditional lecture delivery, active learning and immersive technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality. The classrooms will be supported by a Science Peer Learning Center for STEM tutoring, mentoring and student advising space.
The university will provide flexible, modular research laboratories and support areas engineered for multiple strategic focus areas, including biological resilience, synthetic biology, evolution, regeneration and repair and biological timing. These spaces will also be supported with an equal selection of open lab and dedicated procedure rooms.
Additional shared features will include cold and freezer rooms, autoclave and glass wash areas, microscopy resources and a fly kitchen. The facility will feature a vivarium to provide small mammal research capacity with holding rooms, procedure areas and cage-wash and sterilization support.
The project will include adjacent office space for PIs, open workstations, computational research space and meeting areas to facilitate collaboration and learning. The university has also included three elevators, a mechanical penthouse, fire protection systems and communications systems in the design, according to university documents.
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