JE Dunn tops out on new project for Rice University

The final floor of the highly anticipated new Parking Garage and Office Building project was put in place at Rice University and JE Dunn Construction. The six-story, 67,000 square foot office facility will house administrative departments on levels 2-6. A portion of the first floor will house shared meeting spaces to be made available to students during the evenings. The east side of the building will be connected to a new seven-level, 159,000 square-foot above-ground garage constructed of cast-in-place concrete with approximately 500 parking spaces. The Office Building is expected to attain LEED silver certification and will feature terra-cotta fins that control the amount of natural light into the offices. The parking garage will be disguised with leaf images displayed on textile mesh cladding attached to the sides of the garage. Located near Rice’s Entrance 3, the new facility is scheduled to be completed summer 2017.