Preparation underway for tech center
Building expected to be completed by April
By Sam Eaton
Staff Reporter

Construction of the Tucker Technology Center, which will provide upgraded facilities for the College of Science and Engineering, is on schedule for completion in April, project manager Eric Lincoln said.

Maria Adamczyk/PHOTO EDITOR A construction worker welds part of the William E. and Jean Jones Tucker Technology Center building together Thursday. This view is from the hallway in the building.

He said general contractor Austin Commercial anticipates finishing by the original April 19 target date.

“We’re pretty much on schedule as far as what the contractor has been given for their schedule,” Lincoln said. “Everything we’ve heard from them is that they’re planning on meeting that deadline,” Lincoln said.

Once Austin Commercial finishes construction, TCU will carpet the facility and move in furniture. Lincoln said faculty will be able to move into offices by June and classes will start in the building this fall.

Lincoln said the center was built to ease the current space constraints on the college.

“The amount of space (will be) much larger for engineering professors,” Lincoln said.

“They’ll be in one central location, and they (will have) an awful lot of lab space.”

The center includes 10 teaching labs, seven classrooms, offices for 50 faculty members and a professional development center for meetings and conferences.

Senior computer science major Awais Mazhar said he is looking forward to the new facilities and larger classrooms and labs.

“It (will have) better labs than what we have right now in the computer science labs,” Mazhar said. “If you go to the (current) labs, you’ll notice it’ll be cramped and you’ve got only five to six machines per lab.”

Lincoln said wiring will be visible in parts of the building to give it an electrical feel.

Sam Eaton
s.m.eaton@student.tcu.edu

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