Specialty Project
The National Laboratory for Gamebird Research at Texas A&M University Commerce operated out of lab space scattered across campus for many years. To continue advancing their program and research, the center needed a centralized and more specialized facility. Through a collaboration between the design architect, Arkitex Studio, and the architect of record, HED Architects, the new Ted and Donna Lyon Center for Gamebird Research is a world-class research facility supporting its future growth.
The project includes a Super Quail Facility which is comprised of bio-secure research labs containing breeding, raising, and training facilities and support structures. The project also includes administrative spaces, teaching spaces, indoor and outdoor event facilities, and a Quail Encounter which includes a pollinator meadow and bird viewing blinds located along nature trails winding through the artificial wetlands. The mission of the facility is to help restore natural quail populations by training captive-bred quail to exhibit the same survival instincts and responses as wild-raised quail to improve their transition back into nature, and to educate future researchers and the public.
