Texas A&M University has opened an 85,355-square-foot facility to advance research and education in nutrition, food insecurity, precision nutrition, and responsive agriculture.
The Norman E. Borlaug Building on the College Station campus is a redesign and renovation of the former Norman E. Borlaug Southern Crop Improvement Center, according to the university.
This project honors the work of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the University’s Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture and the “Father of the Green Revolution.”
This building will house the Institute for Promoting Health Through Agriculture and the Department of Nutrition in the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The work being done at this facility will advance research into precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and ways to reduce diet-related chronic diseases.
The facility provides office space as well as a state-of-the-art laboratory designed for research under conditions classified as biosafety level 2. Some labs have flexible open-concept designs depending on the research, and all labs use daylight technology and LED lighting. Reduce energy usage.
The building’s main architectural feature, the rotunda, was expanded from the existing one-story library area to a two-story space. The two-story, all-glass rotunda features a wood ceiling design, terrazzo floors, and cut stone accent walls that reflect Borlaug’s many contributions.
The architect is Page Sutherland Page, and the construction manager is Bartlett Koch General Contractor.
