The University of Houston broke ground on the new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building (MREB) in October, and construction is now fully underway for the state-of-the-art facility, set to open in summer 2016. A live-stream video of the MREB construction is now available on the UH website.
The four-story, 120,000 gross square feet building will house research labs, computational training facilities, visualization lab, a high performance computational server room, and an NMR spectrometer lab. It will stand in the shadow of the old “Y” building, between the engineering complex and Calhoun Lofts Apartments.
Over the next several years, the Cullen College of Engineering’s mission is to catapult into the top 50 engineering programs in the nation. By 2020, the Cullen College will double its student body and increase its faculty members by 50 percent. The MREB will help the college to achieve these goals, in addition to allowing the college to establish new research collaborations with private industry, federal government, and researchers from institutions across the country and around the world.
Learn more about the MREB here.
Click here to watch the live-stream video of MREB construction.