UTHealth Houston has begun work on a 10-story, 350,000-square-foot tower at the Helix Park Campus. This $299 million building is intended to advance UTHealth’s mission of health promotion and disease prevention, creating sustainable access to affordable healthcare and training the next generation of public health sciences leaders. It will feature research laboratories with distance learning technology, an auditorium, a teaching kitchen for dietetic interns as well as collaborative spaces and classrooms focusing on epidemiology, genetics nutrition ,health policy data science and health promotion.
Kirksey Architecture from Houston collaborated with SmithGroup from Detroit Michigan in designing this project while Vaughn Construction based in Houston serves as general contractor for it. The new facility is expected to open by fall semester 2026.
